Noun: turbine
| Singular | turbine |
| Plural | turbines |
Sample Sentences
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Upstream from the house is a watermill, cased in gleaming white weather-boarding, which has been restored to working order. Near by is the water-driven turbine which [Rudyard] Kipling had installed in 1902 to light his mansion with electricity. [1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 98:]
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Turbines have been around for a long time—windmills and water wheels are early examples. The name comes from the Latin turbo, meaning vortex, and thus the defining property of a turbine is that a fluid or gas turns the blades of a rotor, which is attached to a shaft that can perform useful work. […] Through the efforts of many thousands of engineers in the intervening 70 years or so, such gas turbines have come to dominate aircraft propulsion and, with their now-unmatched thermal efficiency and low cost, are the superstars of electric power plants. [2013 July-August, Lee S. Langston, “The Adaptable Gas Turbine]”, in American Scientist, archived from the original on 07 Sep 2013:]
Nouns inflected like turbine
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from French turbine, from Latin turbō, turbinem (“tornado, whirlwind; crowd”). See: French Nouns '
turbine', Latin Nouns '
turbo'.
Verbs referencing "turbine"
Polish Nouns
turbina.