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Definition: Turbine |
TurbineNoun1. Rotary engine in which the kinetic energy of a moving fluid is converted into mechanical energy by causing a bladed rotor to rotate. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "turbine" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Aerospace | 1. A machine consisting principally of one or more turbine wheels and a stator. 2. A turbine wheel.3. A turbine engine. See blowdown turbine, explosion turbine, free turbine, gas turbine, impulse turbine, partial-admission turbine, reaction turbine, single-stage turbine. (references) |
Energy | A rotary engine made with a series of curved vanes on a rotating shaft, usually turned by water or steam. Turbines are considered the most economical means to turn large electrical generators. (references) |
| A device for converting the flow of a fluid (air, steam, water, or hot gases) into mechanical motion. (references) | |
Mechanical Engineering | 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. Source: European Union. (references) |
Space | The high energy airflow coming out of the combustor goes into the turbine, causing the turbine blades to rotate. This rotation extracts some energy from the high-energy flow that is used to drive the fan and the compressor. The gases produced in the combustion chamber move through the turbine and spin its blades. The task of a turbine is to convert gas energy into mechanical work to drive the compressor. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A turbine is a shaft with a fan of blades mounted on it, known as the rotor. This is mounted inside a sealed casing that has a ring of nozzles mounted on it. The activating fluid is blown through these nozzles under high pressure. These jets impact on the turbine's blades and cause it to spin very, very rapidly. Speeds of over 10,000 rpm are common with some very small turbines exceeding 100,000 rpm.
Problems with turbines are quite rare but any imbalance of the rotor blades can lead to vibration, which in extreme cases can lead to a blade letting go and punching straight through the casing. If water gets into the gas and is blasted onto the blades rapid erosion of the blades can occur, possibly leading to imbalance and failure. The control of a turbine with a governor is essential, as turbines need to be run up slowly, to prevent damage. Uncontrolled acceleration of the turbine rotor can lead to the overspeed trip being activated to shut off the activating gas supply to the turbine. If this fails then the turbine may continue accelerating until it breaks apart, often spectacularly, probably extremely dangerously. The high pressures inside the casing lead to problems in sealing the output shaft(labyrinth seals). Turbines are expensive to make, requiring precision manufacture and special quality materials. This purchase cost is offset by much lower maintenance requirements and the small size of a turbine when compared to its shaft power output. Electrical Power stations around the world use large steam turbines driving turbo-generators to produce vast amounts of electricity.
See also wind turbine tesla turbine
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Turbine."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Regression | Propeller, screw, twin screws, turbine, jet engine. |
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Screenplays | Normally I go out with girls who talk so much you could hook them up to a wind turbine and they could power a small New Hampshire town. (Good Morning, Vietnam; writing credit: Mitch Markowitz) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Turbine (1941) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Gas turbine power station. Credit: Flying With NOAA. |  | Two airmen installing a high-pressure turbine. |
 | To Boston--Express triple screw turbine steel steamships Yale and Harvard ... Metropolitan Line. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Production. Locomotives. Crouched in a turbine intake casing, a welder does his bit in the production of essential war equipment. The plant in which he works produces tanks, locomotives, and ship propellers. Baldwin Locomotive Works. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Water turbine and electric generator at municipal power plant. Logan, Utah. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Checking the alignment of a turbine shaft at the top of the guide bearing in TVA's hydroelectric plant, Watts Bar Dam, Tenn. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Pittsburgh Plate Glass Chlorine Plant, New Martinsville, West Virginia. Turbine generators I. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Public Service Company, generating station, Mercer plant. Turbine house, of generating station. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Long Island Lighting Co. Turbine I. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Conowingo Hydroelectric Plant. Turbine hall, seven turbines in line I. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Business | Its services mainly concentrate on the repair and overhaul of turbine blades and vanes. (references) | |
Also, U.S. manufacturers have made advances in blade design and improved the energy efficiency of turbine generators. (references) | ||
Co-generation involves a move away from coal electricity generation to dual steam-electricity gas turbine technology. (references) | ||
Economic History | Egypt | The most promising sub-sectors include turbine generators, power converters, wind farm equipment, and transformers. (references) |
Netherlands | Moreover, since the Netherlands is a very densely populated country the availability of suitable sites for wind turbine parks is limited. (references) | |
Bangladesh | The French firm European Gas Turbine is supplying most of the equipment, while the Japanese firm Sumitomo is serving as engineering contractor. (references) | |
Trade | Senegal | The West African Development Bank granted a CFA 6 billion loan in early 2001 to Senelec, the national power company, for the acquisition of a 20 MW turbine. (references) |
India | Imports of products such as wheat, rice, maize, petrol, diesel, aviation turbine fuel (ATF) and urea are permitted only through designated State Trading Enterprises. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Turbine" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 91.94% of the time. "Turbine" is used about 211 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 91.94% | 194 | 22,014 |
| Noun (proper) | 7.11% | 15 | 90,616 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.95% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 211 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| USA | Capstone Turbine Corporation |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "turbine": air turbine ♦ aircraft turbine ♦ cased turbine ♦ Curtis turbine ♦ de Laval turbine ♦ expansion turbine ♦ extraction turbine ♦ Francis turbine ♦ gas turbine ♦ gas turbine engine ♦ high pressure turbine ♦ hydroelectric turbine ♦ impulse turbine ♦ Kaplan turbine ♦ low pressure turbine ♦ Parsons turbine ♦ reaction turbine ♦ steam extraction turbine ♦ steam turbine ♦ turbine engine ♦ turbine generator ♦ turbine wheel ♦ wind turbine fan ♦ wind turbine with flapped ring wing diffuser. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "turbine": turbine-driven, turbine-generators, turbine-powered. | |
Ending with "turbine": gas-turbine, steam-turbine, twin-turbine. | |
Containing "turbine": gas-turbine ship. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
turbine | 246 | turbine meter | 18 |
wind turbine | 242 | boat turbine | 18 |
gas turbine | 136 | turbine helicopter | 17 |
turbine engine | 97 | american turbine | 17 |
steam turbine | 74 | car turbine | 17 |
micro turbine | 63 | pelton turbine | 16 |
turbine oil | 62 | kaplan turbine | 16 |
tesla turbine | 42 | turbine pump | 16 |
turbine generator | 41 | turbine blade | 15 |
gas turbine engine | 41 | roof turbine vent | 15 |
turbine flow meter | 37 | chrysler turbine | 15 |
turbine engine part | 34 | turbine vent | 14 |
solar turbine | 32 | spencer turbine | 14 |
turbine water | 25 | jet turbine | 14 |
vertical turbine pump | 25 | gas turbine filtration | 13 |
capstone turbine | 21 | turbine part | 13 |
turbine entertainment | 21 | gas job turbine | 13 |
gas turbine generator | 20 | marine technology turbine | 13 |
turbine motorcycle | 18 | blade turbine wind | 13 |
steam turbine generator | 18 | engine small turbine | 12 |
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| Language | Translations for "turbine"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | turbinë. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | محرك يعمل بقوة الماء, محرك يعمل بقوة الغاز, محرك يعمل بقوة البخار, محرك التوربينة, التربينة محرك ذو دولاب يدار بقوة الماء. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | турбина. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 涡轮. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | turbína. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | turbinehjul (pelton wheel, turbine wheel), turbine (rotating blade), roterende skovl (rotating blade). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | turbinewiel (turbine wheel), turbine (rotating blade), schoepenwiel (disc, impeller, pelton wheel, vlade of a rotor), roterende schop (rotating blade). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | توربین . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | turbiinipyörä (turbine wheel). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | turbine. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | turbine (nozzle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κινητήρια μηχανή (motive power unit, prime mover, traction unit, tractive unit), κινητήριοσ τροχόσ, στρόβιλοσ (scurry, swirl, twirl, vortex, whirl, whirlwind), στρόβιλος (jet, pelton wheel, rotating blade, turbine wheel, whirlpool), περιστρεφόμενο φτυάρι (rotating blade), πτερωτή στροβίλου (turbine wheel), τουρμπίνα. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | טורבי ". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | turbina. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | turbin. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | turbina (blower, rotating blade). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | ソ連 (Russia, Soviet Union, tar, target, term, terminal, terminal building, terminal care, terminator, turban, turbo, turbocharger, turquoise, zombie, zone, Zoroaster). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ター"ン . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 터빈. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | turbeen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | urbinetay turbina (blower, pelton wheel, rotating blade). (various references) turbinã. (various references) турбина. (various references) turbina (turbo). (various references) turbina (blower, rotating blade). (various references) turbinmotor (turbine engine, turbomotor), turbin. (various references) türbin. (various references) турбіна. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Date | Source | Job Chapter 40, Verse 1 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai apekriqh kurioV o qeoV tw iwb kai eipen |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Respondens autem Dominus Iob de turbine ait |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Answerende forsothe the Lord to Job fro the whirlewind, |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | Moreover the LORD answered Job, and said, |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | Then the Lord made answer to Job out of the storm-wind, and said, |
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| Language | Job Chapter 40, Verse 1 |
| Albanian | Zoti vazhdoi t'i përgjigjet Jobit dhe tha: |
| Cebuano | ¶ Labut pa niini si Jehova mitubag kang Job, ug miingon: |
| Chinese | 耶 ' 華 又 對 約 伯 說 、 |
| Croatian | I Jahve se obrati Jobu i reèe mu: |
| Danish | Da svarede HERREN Job ud fra Stormvejret og sagde: |
| German | Und der HERR antwortete Hiob und sprach: |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Hai Ayub, kautantang Aku, Allah Yang Mahakuasa; maukah engkau mengalah atau maukah engkau membantah?" |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka disahut Tuhan kepada Ayub dari dalam taufan, firman-Nya: |
| Italian | Il Signore riprese e disse a Giobbe: |
| Maori | ¶ Korero mai ano a Ihowa ki a Hopa, i mea, |
| Norwegian | Og Herren svarte Job ut av stormen og sa: |
| Rumanian | Domnul, a vorbit lui Iov, wi a zis: |
| Swedish | Och HERREN talade till Job ur stormvinden och sade: |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "turbine": turbines. (additional references) | |
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"Turbine" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Iturbi, tobiano, Torbane, Torbin, Torbrien, Truline, Tubiana, Tubingen, turaine, turbain, turben, turbile, turbin, turbina, turbiner, turdine, turgine, Turina, turine. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "turbine" (pronounced ter"bīn) |
| 3 | -b ī n | combine. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: tribune. | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-i-n-r-t-u" | |
-1 letter: brunet, bunter, burnet, burnie, triune, uniter. | |
-2 letters: biter, brent, brine, bruin, bruit, brunt, brute, buret, burin, burnt, inert, inter, inure, niter, nitre, rebut, rutin, tribe, trine, tuber, tuner, unite, untie, urine, uteri. | |
-3 letters: bent, bier, bine, bint, bite, bren, brie, brin, brit, brut, bunt, burn, bute, etui, nite, rein, rent, rite, rube, ruin. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-i-n-r-t-u" | |
+1 letter: braunite, tribunes, turbines, unbitter, urbanite. | |
+2 letters: blueprint, braunites, buttering, embruting, interclub, rebutting, tribunate, turbinate, urbanites. | |
+3 letters: becrusting, blueprints, blustering, burthening, butchering, contribute, counterbid, exurbanite, interurban, perturbing, subentries, subreption, subroutine, subverting, tambourine, tenebrious, tribunates, tuberculin, turbidness, turbinated, turbinates, urbanities. | |
+4 letters: barquentine, blueprinted, boutonniere, briquetting, brutishness, buttressing, carbureting, carburetion, contributed, contributes, counterbids, disturbance, drumbeating, equilibrant, exuberating, exurbanites, inscrutable, interurbans, outbreeding, rebuttoning, retribution, rubefacient, strikebound, subinterval, subminister, subordinate, subreptions, subroutines, subservient, subterminal, suburbanite, tambourines, thunderbird, tribuneship, tuberculins, undisturbed, unliberated, unobtrusive, unprintable. | |
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