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servo
1[ sur-voh ]
adjective
- acting as part of a servomechanism:
servo amplifier.
- pertaining to or having to do with servomechanisms:
servo engineer.
- noting the action of certain mechanisms, as brakes, that are set in operation by other mechanisms but which themselves augment the force of that action by the way in which they operate.
noun
- Informal. servomechanism.
verb (used with object)
- to connect (a mechanism) to another as a servomechanism.
servo-
2- a combining form used in the names of devices or operations that employ a servomechanism:
servocontrol.
servo
1/ ˈsɜːvəʊ /
adjective
- prenominal of, relating to, forming part of, or activated by a servomechanism
servo brakes
noun
- informal.short for servomechanism
servo
2/ ˈsɜːvəʊ /
noun
- informal.a service station
Word History and Origins
Origin of servo1
Origin of servo2
Word History and Origins
Origin of servo1
Example Sentences
With slow precision he set the servo fixes on the huge gray hulk looming up in the viewer, and then snapped the switches sharply.
She stared at Frank Nineteen and the big servo stared at her and we heard a kind of trembling whirr from both of them.
Around noon the next day the big servo checked in, signed the register and headed straight for 22A.
Half an hour later the big servo came in, picked up his refuel receipt, said good-bye politely and left through the inner airlock.
"I felt an immediate overload of power in my DX circuit," the servo-pilot confessed.
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