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1. Turbine
   The Turbine was an Italian Turbine Class destroyer of 1073 tons displacement launched in 1927. The Borea was powered by three Express boilers with super heaters providing a top speed of 36 knots and carried a complement of 142. She was armed with four 4.7-inch guns; four 37 mm anti-aircraft guns; tw...
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2. turbine
   [n] - rotary engine in which the kinetic energy of a moving fluid is converted into mechanical energy by causing a bladed rotor to rotate
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3. Turbine
   A rotary machine which extracts mechanical shaft power from the working fluid, gas or liquid, using rotor vanes. Steam turbines often propel ships and power stations. Gas turbines are also used.
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4. Turbine
   Rotary engine that converts the energy of a moving stream of water, steam, or gas into mechanical energy. The basic element in a turbine is a wheel or rotor with paddles, propellers, blades, or buckets arranged on its circumference in such a fashion that the moving fluid exerts a tangential force th...
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5. turbine
   a multivaned wheel or rotor,especially in a gas-turbine engine,rotated by the impulse from or reaction to a fluid passing across the vanes.Often called a turbine Category: Mechanical engineering
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6. turbine
   A machine for converting the heat energy in steam or high temperature gas into mechanical energy. In a turbine, a high velocity flow of steam or gas passes through successive rows of radial blades fastened to a central shaft. ... (05 Dec 1998) ...
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7. turbine
   noun rotary engine in which the kinetic energy of a moving fluid is converted into mechanical energy by causing a bladed rotor to rotate
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8. Turbine
   • (n.) A form of steam engine analogous in construction and action to the water turbine. There are practically only two distinct kinds, and they are typified in the de Laval and the Parsons and Curtis turbines. The de Laval turbine is an impulse turbine, in which steam impinges upon revolving b...
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9. turbine
   any of various devices that convert the energy in a stream of fluid into mechanical energy. The conversion is generally accomplished by passing the ... [10 related articles]
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10. turbine
    turbine 1. Any of various machines having a rotor, usually with vanes or blades, driven by the pressure, momentum, or reactive thrust of a moving fluid; such as, steam, water, hot gases, or air, either occurring in the form of free jets or as a fluid passing through and entirely filling a housing ar...
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11. Turbine
    A device for converting the flow of a fluid (air, steam, water, or hot gases) into mechanical motion.
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12. turbine
    turbine, rotary engine that uses a continuous stream of fluid (gas or liquid) to turn a shaft that can drive machinery.A water, or hydraulic, turbine is used to drive electric generators in hydroelectric power stations. The first such station was built in Wisconsin in 1882. In a hydraulic turbine fa...
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13. Turbine
    Originally a turbine was a high-speed water-wheel consisting of a horizontal wheel usually constructed with a series of curved floats upon the periphery and 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....
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14. turbine
    Click images to enlargeEngine in which steam, water, gas, or air (see windmill) is made to spin a rotating shaft by pushing on angled blades, like a fan. There are two sets of blades, the stator (does not rotate) and the rotor (does rotate). The rotating turbine shaft can be connected to an electricity generator. Turbines...
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15. turbine
    A device for converting the flow of a fluid (air, steam, water, or hot gases) into mechanical motion that can be utilized to produce electricity.
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16. Turbine
    A device that converts the energy in a stream of moving fluid into mechanical energy.
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17. Turbine
    A `turbine` is a rotary engine that extracts energy from a fluid flow and converts it into useful work. The simplest turbines have one moving part, a rotor assembly, which is a shaft or drum with blades attached. Moving fluid acts on the blades, or the blades react to the flow, so that they move and...
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18. Turbine
    (disambiguation) A `turbine` is a rotary engine that extracts energy from a fluid flow. `Turbine` may also refer to: Types of turbines: :*Compound turbine :*Vertical-axis wind turbine :*Darrieus wind turbine :*Windstar turbine :*Savonius wind turbine :*Quietrevolution wind turbine :*Turby win...
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