| 单词 | wind turbine |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswind turbine wind turbine n. a turbine driven by wind; an apparatus designed to generate electricity when a large vaned wheel is rotated by the wind. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > turbine > [noun] > other turbines water turbine1859 impulse turbine1880 wind turbine1909 impulse-reaction turbine1929 pump-turbine1934 1909 Chambers's Jrnl. Mar. 203/1 A small petrol or oil engine as a standby to be used when there is insufficient wind to drive the wind-turbine. 1946 A. Huxley Let. 5 Nov. (1969) 557 I gather that the experimental wind turbine which has been producing fifteen hundred kilowatts in Maine has proved entirely satisfactory. 1982 Daily Tel. 17 Nov. 1/6 A £650,000 wind turbine machine..was switched on yesterday by Sir Walter Marshall, chairman of the Central Electricity Generating Board. < as lemmas |
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