lost motion

English

Noun

lost motion (uncountable)

1. (engineering) The difference between the motion of a driver and that of a follower, due to the yielding of parts or looseness of joints.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “lost motion”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)