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Dynamo Sports Club, a national sporting association in the Soviet Union, and other similiar organisations in other socialist countries and their successor states.
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Any of various football clubs and other sports teams linked to a Dynamo association, including Dynamo Berlin, Dynamo Dresden, Dynamo Kyiv and Dinamo Zagreb in soccer and HC Dynamo Moscow in ice hockey.
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noun
An electricity generator; a dynamo-electric machine.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: electrical-engineering, electromagnetism, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics
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noun
The mechanism by which a celestial body, such as the Earth or a star, generates a magnetic field.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: astrophysics
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noun
An energetic person.
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Usage: figuratively
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noun
generator consisting of a coil (the armature) that rotates between the poles of an electromagnet (the field magnet) causing a current to flow in the armature
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: generator
History
From Russian Динамо (Dinamo) and cognates in other languages, including Serbo-Croatian Dinamo and German Dynamo.
A shortening of dynamo-electric machine. The element dynamo- is ultimately from Ancient Greek δύναμις (dúnamis, “power”).
Across languages
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