Today’s word is servo. Never had heard this word before. So who knows what it is?

 

are you talking to me?
which kind of servo?
most are typically electromechanical positioners.
An audio company many mooons ago had a speaker system called The Infinity Reference Standard.
The subwoofers had a servo sense feedback loop for maintaining absolute accuracy in the sound.

 

Feedback is the key to a servo. Like turntable motors, which have a mechanical device or electric circuit (or both) --- to set the motor speed is exactly to 33-1/3 RPMs.

 

If you still have a computer with a hard drive (rather than a solid state drive) I think a servo positions the read-write head over the appropriate track on the spinning disk. I normally think of servos as operating laterally but wondhund's definition is probably more accurate and definitive.

Today's word is "definition." Please define it definitively.

I've been cooped up for far too long.

 

It was in Wordscapes. I never would have gotten it. The +1 did pretty quickly and said they had them on submarines for controlling valves or something.

Def says short for servomechanism or servomotor.

A servo (servomechanism) is an electromagnetic device that converts electricity into precise controlled motion by use of negative feedback mechanisms. Servos can be used to generate linear or circular motion, depending on their type.

 

Well, let's go with Bucolic for the short word folks.

Bucolic: byo͞oˈkälik - adjective -
relating to the pleasant aspects of the countryside and country life: e.g. The country picnic area is a very bucolic setting.

 

Bucolique...???
Are you getting a little ‘’Fleur bleue’’ ???

 

Non, manquez juste d'être au Dragon.