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61turbine — a rotary motor driven by a flow of water, steam or wind to produce electrical energy …
62turbine — tur·bine || tÉœrbaɪn / tÉœË n. engine powered by a rotor revolving by means of the force of moving liquid exerted on the vanes of the rotor (fluids commonly used are water, steam, and air) …
63Turbine generator — A device that uses steam, heated gases, water flow or wind to cause spinning motion that activates electromagnetic forces and generates electricity. California Energy Comission. Dictionary of Energy Terms …
64turbine — [ tə:bʌɪn, ɪn] noun a machine for producing continuous power in which a wheel or rotor, typically fitted with vanes, is made to revolve by a fast moving flow of water, steam, gas, air, or other fluid. Origin C19: from Fr., from L. turbo, turbin… …
65turbine — tur•bine [[t]ˈtɜr bɪn, baɪn[/t]] n. mac any of various machines having a rotor, usu. with vanes or blades, driven by the pressure or thrust of a moving fluid, as steam, water, hot gases, or air, either in the form of free jets or as a fluid… …
66turbine — n. a rotary motor or engine driven by a flow of water, steam, gas, wind, etc., esp. to produce electrical power. Etymology: F f. L turbo binis spinning top, whirlwind …
67Gas turbine — Microturbine redirects here. For turbines in electricity, see Small wind turbine. For turbines driven by the flow of gas, see Turbine. A typical axial flow gas turbine turbojet, the J85, sectioned for display. Flow is left to right, multistage… …
68Tesla turbine — The Tesla turbine is a bladeless centrifugal flow turbine expander patented by Nikola Tesla in 1913. It is referred to as a bladeless turbine because it uses the boundary layer effect and not a fluid impinging upon the blades as in a conventional …
69gas-turbine engine — Introduction any internal combustion engine employing a gas as the working fluid used to turn a turbine. The term also is conventionally used to describe a complete internal combustion engine consisting of at least a compressor, a… …
70Timeline of steam power — See Steam engine, Steam power during the Industrial Revolution. Steam power developed slowly over a period of several hundred years, progressing through expensive and fairly limited devices in the early 1600s, to useful pumps for mining in 1700,… …
