Look up: turbine

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   Turbine
   A turbine is a type of engine. Steam turbines often propel ships and power stations. Gas turbines are also used.
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   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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   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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   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 that turns the wheel and imparts energy to it. This ...
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   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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   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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   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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   Turbine
   A `turbine` is a rotary engine that extracts energy from a fluid flow. Claude Burdin (1788-1873) coined the term from the Latin `turbo`, or vortex, during an 1828 engineering competition. Benoit Fourneyron (1802-1867), a student of Claude Burdin, built the first practical water turbine. The simplest turbines have one moving part, a rotor assembly, which is a shaft with blades attached. Moving fluid acts on the blades, or the blades react to the...
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   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 blades from a flared nozzle. The flare of the nozzl...
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    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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    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 around the rotor. 2. A general term for any machine capable...
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    Turbine
    A device for converting the flow of a fluid (air, steam, water, or hot gases) into mechanical motion.
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    turbine
    A machine that generates rotary mechanical power from the energy of a moving fluid, such as water (see water turbine, steam (see steam turbine), hot gas (see gas turbine), or wind (see wind turbine). Turbines convert the kinetic energy or pressure of the fluid to mechanical energy through the princi...
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    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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