turbine compound
1Turbine (disambiguation) — A turbine is a rotary engine that extracts energy from a fluid flow.Other pages about turbinesTypes of turbines*Gas turbine:*Jet engine:*Turbojet:*Turbofan:*Turbocharger:*Turboshaft*Steam turbine:*Compound turbine*Wind turbine:*Vertical axis wind …
2Turbine à vapeur — Turbine Pour les articles homonymes, voir Turbine (homonymie). Schéma de principe d une turbine. Une turbine est …
3compound — [ kɔ̃pund ] adj. inv. et n. • 1874; mot angl. « composé » ♦ Anglic. Machine compound, ou n. f. une compound : machine à vapeur à plusieurs cylindres dans lesquels la vapeur agit alternativement. Électrotechn. Excitation compound : excitation d… …
4turbine — /terr bin, buyn/, n. any of various machines having a rotor, usually with vanes or blades, driven by the pressure, momentum, or reactive thrust of a moving fluid, as steam, water, hot gases, or air, either occurring in the form of free jets or as …
5Compound engine — For compound steam locomotives, see Compound locomotive. Cutaway of triple expansion compound steam engine, 1888 …
6Compound turbine — A compound turbine is a steam turbine in which there are two casings, a high pressure casing and a low pressure casing, operating in concert to extract work from a single source of steam. The steam is partially expanded in the high pressure… …
7compound engine — noun 1. : an engine (as a steam engine) in which the working fluid is expanded successively in two distinct phases so as to minimize losses (as from cylinder condensation) and so allow a high ratio of expansion to be used, the working fluid (as… …
8Turbine — 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,… …
9Turbine — Pour les articles homonymes, voir Turbine (homonymie). Schéma de principe d une turbine. Une turbine est un dispositif rotatif destiné à utiliser la force d un …
10Compound (linguistics) — In linguistics, a compound is a lexeme (less precisely, a word) that consists of more than one stem. Compounding or composition is the word formation that creates compound lexemes (the other word formation process being derivation). Compounding… …
