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servo

UK/ˈsɜː.vəʊ/US/ˈsɝ.voʊ/

servo noun: a servomechanism.

Noun (1)

servo (plural servos)

  1. A servomechanism.
    • A Lockheed Type 6 remote servo adds a 1.9 multiplier to the pedal pressures and, at about £140, is rather cheaper than all the Girling single line remote servos I′ve seen advertised.2003, Roger Williams, How to Improve Triumph TR5, 250 and 6, page 45
    • If you are using Futaba servos with the application, make sure that you change the data values accordingly.2004, Myke Predko, 123 Robotics Experiments for the Evil Genius, page 300
    1. A servomotor.

Verb

servo (third-person singular simple present servos, present participle servoing, simple past and past participle servoed)

  1. To control by means of servocontrol.

Noun (2)

servo (plural servos)

  1. (Australia, New Zealand) A service station, being a place to buy petrol for cars etc., as well as various convenience items, with or without actual car service facilities.
    • Two hours later Susan pulled the Pajero off the road onto the floodlit apron of the servo at the end of the Bowen bypass.2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin, published 2003, page 83
    • Crude oil is purchased in US dollars, so the price of the petrol at your local servo is heavily influenced by the rate of exchange between the greenback and the Aussie dollar.2008, Roz Hopkins, Pumped, page 12

servo meaning in Tamil

servo in Tamil

செர்வோ, செயற்பணி

Examples of servo in a sentence

  • If you go past the servo, you've gone too far. Chuck a uey and you'll see the place on your left.
  • The airplane's primary flight controls comprise elevators and ailerons driven by manually-controlled servo tabs, and a hydraulically-powered rudder and spoilerons.
  • Reference sync servo system — permits minimal time-base error, assuring minimum jitter and drift.

All 10 example sentences with servo

Forms of servo

Noun
pluralservos
Verb
third-person singular presentservos
present participleservoing
past participleservoed
pastservoed

Plural of servo: servos

Origin of servo

Clipping of servomotor.

Clipping of service station + -o.

Words formed from servo

Questions about servo

What does servo mean?
Servo means a servomechanism.
What is servo in Tamil?
Servo in Tamil is செர்வோ, செயற்பணி. See Servo meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is servo?
Servo can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce servo?
Servo is pronounced /ˈsɜː.vəʊ/ (UK).
What is the plural of servo?
The plural of servo is servos.

Words near servo in the dictionary

  1. serviture
  2. servitute
  3. servitutes
  4. servlet
  5. servlets
  6. servo
  7. servo drive
  8. servo-
  9. servo-driven
  10. servo-mechanism
  11. servo-mechanisms

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: servo (page history and authors); servo (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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