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turbine(medicine)
turbine(encyclopedia)
gas turbine(dictionary)
gas turbine(medicine)
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francis turbine(medicine)
steam turbine(medicine)
condensing turbine(medicine)
wind turbine(dictionary)

turbine (iou)



turbine noun. M19.
[French from Latin turbin-, turbo: see TURBO noun1.]
Orig., a high-speed water-wheel, esp. a horizontal one driven by a column of water falling into its interior and escaping through oblique channels so as to impel the wheel in the opposite direction. Now, any rotary machine in which a revolving wheel, or a cylinder or disk bearing vanes, is driven by a flow of water, steam, gas, wind, etc., esp. to generate electrical power.
gas turbine, impulse turbine, jet turbine, pump-turbine, reaction turbine, shaft turbine, steam turbine, etc.
turbined adjective having or propelled by a turbine or turbines E20.
turbiner noun a vessel driven by a turbine E20.