An Etymological Dictionary of Astronomy and Astrophysics

1a) To cause to move, to force to act. → continuum-driven wind, → dust-driven wind, → line-driven wind, → radiation-driven implosion, → radiation-driven mass loss, → radiation-driven wind.

1b) To cause and → guide the → motion of a → telescope.

2a) The act of driving.

2b) The → mechanism that imparts or transfers → power to a telescope so that it can move. → alpha drive, → delta drive, → drive accuracy, → slewing drive .

Etymology (EN): M.E. driven; O.E. drifan; cf. O.N. drifa, Goth. dreiban.

Etymology (PE): Rândan “to cause to go,” causative of raftan “to go, walk, proceed” (present tense stem row-, Mid.Pers. raftan, raw-, Proto-Iranian *rab/f- “to go; to attack”).