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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" Quotes from Famous Books

... of honey, in three or four stories of superposed combs enclosed in a frame which permits of their being removed and handled, of the harvest being extracted through centrifugal force by means of a turbine, and of their being then restored to their place like a ...

— The Life of the Bee • Maurice Maeterlinck

... is the topmost pinnacle of talk. It is the utmost degree of service that the telephone has been required to give in any city. And it is as much a world's wonder, to men and women of imagination, as the steel mills of Homestead or the turbine leviathans that curve across the Atlantic Ocean in four ...

— The History of the Telephone • Herbert N. Casson

Words linked to "Turbine" : vane, blade, stator, rotor, stator coil, rotor coil, rotary engine