What’s the difference between an engine and a motor?
In: Engineering
An engine does work and a motor produces kinetic energy.
Motors have to do with creating movement, so muscles are motors.
Engines do things, so the CPU of a computer is an engine, even though it has no moving parts.
In most common uses of the words, they are interchangeable though, as usually people use them to refer to a machine that produces motion.
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