What's the difference between impeller and turbine?

Impeller


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, impels.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Byatt said that, while she had not wished to present an allegory or a polemic, the story was impelled by a profound sense of gloom about the environment and indeed about all human endeavours.
  • (2) By being steadfast in our values we can impel Russia to rethink its ambitions; by being mild we can encourage their cruellest actions.
  • (3) In this configuration, recirculation of the oxygenated media is provided by the CelliGen Cell Lift impeller.
  • (4) I would have thought that our foreign policy disasters throughout the Muslim world would have impelled Blair to learn the lesson of the unintended consequences of military action.
  • (5) The second model produces a pulsatile flow by differing the gaps between impeller and cap on the inlet pipe.
  • (6) The centrifugal pump with a 50 mm diameter impeller resulted in almost the same index of hemolysis value as did a Bio-Medicus centrifugal pump.
  • (7) The death rate constant increased sharply at impeller tip speeds above 40 cm s-1.
  • (8) A minority (24%) of those holding health insurance believed that public sector services were inadequate to provide health care but only 9% of families were able to cite some specific shortcoming of public sector services which had impelled them to take out insurance cover.
  • (9) This may be due in part to aspects of the illness and treatment side effects that impel patients to use dopamine agonist drugs.
  • (10) This paper takes as index the content of free acids and total acids, the action of pepsin in the stomachs of hungry mice, impelling functions and intestines of hungry mice and makes a comparison of the raw products with the processed products of medicated leaven.
  • (11) The deals done here fuel death, injury, fear and repression – yet instead of banning it, the government helps make it happen.” Those who felt impelled to draw attention to this anomaly were arrested on suspicion of aggravated trespass.
  • (12) Ultimately, the organizations said, health risks to adolescents are so impelling that legal barriers and deference to parental involvement should not stand in the way of needed health care.
  • (13) Bellichick, however, also felt impelled to deny reports that he "hated" Tebow as a player .
  • (14) In the first model, the impeller oscillates in an axial direction during constant rotation.
  • (15) The new position furnished a direct line of sight to the apex of the IV ventricle corresponding to that provided by the classic high sitting position, without the latter's risks of air embolism and of acute subdural hematoma secondary to tearing of corticodural bridging vessels due to escape of gravity-impelled CSF from the large ventricles.
  • (16) A total absence of visual feedback impelled subjects to use subtle cues such as crude auditory localization.
  • (17) Impelled by pressure from the public, the scientific community, and the Congress, the NIH participates in formulating safety guidelines regarding potential applications of biotechnology.
  • (18) The valvo-pump can be made feasible by developing a small, high-output, power motor and an endurable seal, as well as by optimizing the impeller design.
  • (19) Recent identification of atrial natriuretic peptides (ANP) in the mammalian heart demonstrated that the heart functions not only as a pump impelling the blood but also as an endocrine organ that secretes the hormone controlling body fluid volume, electrolyte balance, and blood pressure.
  • (20) (24)Na is added to the mucosal medium of a short-circuited bladder mounted between halves of a chamber in which the fluid is stirred by rotating impellers.

Turbine


Definition:

  • (n.) A water wheel, commonly horizontal, variously constructed, but usually having a series of curved floats or buckets, against which the water acts by its impulse or reaction in flowing either outward from a central chamber, inward from an external casing, or from above downward, etc.; -- also called turbine wheel.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Virus replication in nasal turbinates was not diminished while infection in the lung was suppressed sufficiently for the infected mice to survive the infection.
  • (2) Delabole residents Susan and John Theobald said: “We’ve always enjoyed being around the turbines and have often walked right up to them with our dogs.
  • (3) The workforce has changed dramatically since 1900 – just 29,000 Americans today work in fishing and the number of job titles tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics has grown to almost 600 – everything from “animal trainers” to “wind turbine service technicians” (and there are even more sub categories).
  • (4) The scheme is available to those who have one or more of the following technologies: solar PV panels (roof-mounted or stand alone), wind turbines (building mounted or free standing), hydroelectricity, anaerobic digestion (generating electricity from food waste), and micro combined heat and power (through the use of new types of boilers , for example).
  • (5) One in four British homes could be fitted with solar heating equipment and 3,500 wind turbines could be erected across Britain within 12 years as part of a green energy revolution to be proposed by the government next week.
  • (6) Water forms a substantial part of aerosol particles formed during preparation with turbin equipment.
  • (7) The selection of diamond-coates whetstones manufactured by Chirana for turbine drills is extended at present by two new types of toods with a different size of diamond particles.
  • (8) If REpower had waited until it had secured planning permission for the windfarms before it began building the turbine factory, permission would have lapsed before it had had time to supply the turbines.
  • (9) Although it is the world's biggest CO2 emitter and notorious for building the equivalent of a 400MW coal-fired power station every three days, it is also erecting 36 wind turbines a day and building a robust new electricity grid to send this power thousands of miles across the country from the deserts of the west to the cities of the east.
  • (10) The owners of a wind turbine factory on the Isle of Wight won a repossession order today in their attempt to end an occupation of the plant by workers protesting at planned job losses.
  • (11) The replication of these viruses in infant-rat turbinates and lungs was also studied; virus concentrations in turbinate tissues 48 h after infection showed a close correlation with virulence for man.
  • (12) An air turbine drill will remove methylmethacrylate from the medullary canal of the proximal femur in cases of failed total hip replacement and from the distal femur in cases of failed long stem total knee replacement.
  • (13) ENT examination revealed a necrotic lesion of the right middle turbinate which on histology was diagnosed as acute purulent rhinitis without granuloma or vasculitis.
  • (14) Some costs could be lower for floating turbines, however.
  • (15) Radioactivity was widely distributed to all tissues examined, with the respiratory tract (lung, trachea, larynx, and nasal turbinates), upper gastrointestinal tract (stomach and small intestine), the liver, and the adrenals containing the highest concentrations of [14C]DBC equivalents within 1 hr after exposure.
  • (16) In the majority of cases, the level of acetylcholinesterase fell with the appearance of congestion and rose when the turbinates returned to normal.
  • (17) Turbinate atrophy was quantified by measuring the length of the osseous core of the ventral turbinates.
  • (18) The Dutch are famous for their windmills, which have formed the basis for the design of the modern wind turbines that we see today.
  • (19) Like his wind turbine though, discreetly taken down some months later, many people are now concluding that Cameron's promise to lead the " greenest government ever " was little more than a fraudulent gimmick, a PR stunt from a man schooled in the PR industry.
  • (20) The distribution of B lymphocytes and immunoglobulins G, A, M, and E in nasal mucosa was studied in frozen biopsy sections of nasal turbinate from 16 allergic patients and 8 controls.

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