GOVERNOR
\ɡˈʌvənə], \ɡˈʌvənə], \ɡ_ˈʌ_v_ə_n_ə]\
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One who governs; especially, one who is invested with the supreme executive authority in a State; a chief ruler or magistrate; as, the governor of Pennsylvania.
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One who has the care or guardianship of a young man; a tutor; a guardian.
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A contrivance applied to steam engines, water wheels, and other machinery, to maintain nearly uniform speed when the resistances and motive force are variable.
By Oddity Software
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One who governs; especially, one who is invested with the supreme executive authority in a State; a chief ruler or magistrate; as, the governor of Pennsylvania.
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One who has the care or guardianship of a young man; a tutor; a guardian.
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A contrivance applied to steam engines, water wheels, and other machinery, to maintain nearly uniform speed when the resistances and motive force are variable.
By Noah Webster.
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The chief executive of a state; one who is clothed with great legal authority; chief ruler; a mechanical device for regulating the speed of an engine.
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Governorship.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Governorship.
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The chief executive officer of a State of the American Union: a ruler: one invested with supreme authority: a tutor: (machinery) a regulator, or contrivance for maintaining uniform velocity with a varying resistance: (B.) a pilot.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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n. He who has all power and authority; God; Christ;—one invested with supreme authority in a state; ruler; magistrate;—one acting with delegated authority;—a father; a guardian; a tutor;—a pilot;—head manager or director, as of a banking corporation:—a contrivance in mills or machinery for maintaining a uniform velocity with a variable resistance.
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