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turbine
/ˈtɝ.baɪn/
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What does turbine mean?
noun
- Any of various rotary machines that use the kinetic energy of a continuous stream of fluid (a liquid or a gas) to turn a shaft.
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The reciprocating engines drove the wing-propellers and the turbine a mid-propeller, making her a triple-screw vessel.
An analogous case arose in the application of the steam turbine to the propulsion of cargo boats, a problem as yet unsolved.
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And it is as much a world's wonder, to men and women of imagination, as the steel mills of Homestead or the turbine leviathans that curve across the Atlantic Ocean in four and a half days.