Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Electro-motive

Electro-motive , adjective

Producing electro-motion; producing, or tending to produce, electricity or an electric current; causing electrical action or effects.
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Electro-motive force (Physics) , the force which produces, or tends to produce, electricity, or an electric current; sometimes used to express the degree of electrification as equivalent to potential, or more properly difference of potential.