| 单词 | turbine |
| 释义 | turbine /terr"bin, -buyn/, n. any of various machines having a rotor, usually with vanes or blades, driven by the pressure, momentum, or reactive thrust of a moving fluid, as steam, water, hot gases, or air, either occurring in the form of free jets or as a fluid passing through and entirely filling a housing around the rotor. Cf. impulse turbine, reaction turbine. [1815-25; < F < L turbin-, s. of turbo something that spins, e.g., top, spindle, whirlwind; akin to TURBID] |
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