locomotive, locomotion, locomotory
The locomotive steam train pulled into the station.Example sentence - The locomotive was traveling west.The locomotive was travelling at one hundred miles per hour.
the Stockton & Darlington Railway, using the locomotive "Locomotion", about 1825.
Locomotion is the term for the ability to independently move about from place to place.
The purpose of a train's locomotive is to provide sufficient power to move the train and it's passengers or cargo to it's required destination.
same way as diesel locomotive, sort of
The root "loco" comes from the Latin, locus, meaning "place". The words "locomotive" and "locomotion" contain this root.
No. Locomotion is simply the ability to move place to place. It does not matter how many legs--or no legs; or whether person, animal, reptile, spider, etc. In fact, a locomotive on the railroad, a train, can move place to place.
Chlamydomonas uses whip-like structures called flagella for locomotion. These flagella are made of microtubules and are located at the anterior end of the cell. By beating their flagella, Chlamydomonas can move through its aquatic environment.
it means the same as locomotion :)
The first steam locomotive worked by using steam produced by boiling water in a boiler to power a piston that moved the locomotive's wheels. The steam was directed into the piston chamber, pushing the piston back and forth, which in turn moved the locomotive forward on the tracks.
about locomotive crane