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.

Compare turbine with other words:

turbine vs. turbite

turbine vs. turbo

impeller vs. turbine

mobile vs. turbine

generator vs. turbine

engine vs. turbine

fan vs. turbine

tailrace vs. turbine

penstock vs. turbine

shaft vs. turbine

turbine vs. turn

gas vs. turbine

liquid vs. turbine

fluid vs. turbine

stream vs. turbine

continuous vs. turbine

machine vs. turbine

rotary vs. turbine

turbine vs. turbulent

channel vs. turbine

turbid vs. turbine

piston vs. turbine

pump vs. turbine