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Prime mover may refer to:

Engineering

• Prime mover, a machine that transforms energy between thermal, electrical or pressure and mechanical form, typically an engine or turbine
  • Prime mover (locomotive), a component of a locomotive

Haulage

A tractor unit or towing engine, a vehicle that provides the motive power to haul a load, as in:

• Heavy hauler, a large transporter for moving oversize loads too large for road travel without an escort and special permit
• Tractor unit, used for pulling semi-trailers, known as a "prime mover" in Australian English
• Ballast tractor, a heavy haulage road vehicle designed to pull or push heavy or exceptionally large loads
• Artillery tractor, a military vehicle hauling an artillery piece
• Steam tractor, a vehicle powered by a steam engine which is used for pulling
• Tractor, a vehicle specifically designed to deliver a high tractive effort (or torque) at slow speeds

Entertainment

• Prime Mover (film), a 2009 Australian romantic crime film
• "The Prime Mover", an episode of The Twilight Zone
• Prime Mover (comics), a fictional character in the Marvel Universe
• Prime Mover, a video game published by Psygnosis in 1993
• The Prime Movers, a quasi-omniscient race of alien superbeings in the Buck Godot comic series by Phil Foglio

Music

• Prime Mover (album), a 1988 album by AD featuring Kerry Livgren
• "Prime Mover", the 1987 single from Zodiac Mindwarp
• "Prime Mover", a song on Rush's 1987 album Hold Your Fire
• "Prime Mover", a song on Ghost's 2010 album Opus Eponymous

Bands

• The Prime Movers (Michigan band), a 1960s band featuring a pre-Stooges Iggy Pop
• The Prime Movers (Los Angeles band), a predecessor band of Dread Zeppelin
• The Prime Movers, a band founded by Graham Day of The Prisoners

Other uses

• Prime mover theory (Latin: primum movens), a monotheistic concept advanced by Aristotle as a primary cause or "mover" of all the motion in the universe

• Disambiguation pages