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prime mover
- the original force in a series of transmissions of force
- any initiating or principal force
- any natural force applied by people to produce power, as muscular energy or flowing water
- a machine, as a turbine, that converts a natural force into productive power
- in the Aristotelian philosophical tradition, the first cause of all movement, itself unmoved
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