turbine
Any of various rotary machines that use the kinetic energy of a continuous stream of fluid (a liquid or a gas) to turn a shaft.
A kind of
- rotary engine
Kinds of turbine
- gas turbine
- hydroelectric turbine
- impulse turbine
- reaction turbine
- steam turbine
- wind turbine
- axial turbine
Related words
- hydroturbine
- microturbine
- multiturbine
- turbinelike
- Rushton turbine
- gas turbine
- ram air turbine
- steam turbine
- turbo-
- water turbine
- wind turbine
- expansion turbine
Word history
From Latin "turbo" (turbō, turbinem).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “turbine” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.