turbine

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What could happen: The Woodbury Planning Commission and City Council could decide this year whether a turbine will be allowed, and if it is, how tall it will be.

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  1. noun Any of various machines in which the kinetic energy of a moving fluid is converted to mechanical power by the impulse or reaction of the fluid with a series of buckets, paddles, or blades arrayed about the circumference of a wheel or cylinder.

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  • There the fuel problem ;the turbine is a hungry beast ;was solved in the dense jungles along the inner coast, where two growing-seasons a year provided unlimited fermentable vegetable matter. —  Piper, H. Beam - First Cycle (v1.0) (html)
  • What could happen: The Woodbury Planning Commission and City Council could decide this year whether a turbine will be allowed, and if it is, how tall it will be. —  News
  • The turbine, which is placed just behind the Mequon campus building, was officially commissioned two months ago. —  EcoEarth.Info Environment RSS Newsfeed
  • Combustion of a fuel in air is usually used to produce the needed temperatures and pressures in the gas turbine, which is why gas turbines are often referred to as combustion turbines. —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
  • "The arrival of the extra turbine is a major blow to the Taliban, so they are going to be keen to make sure the project fails." —  The Captain's Journal
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  1. French, from Latin turbō, turbin-, spinning top, perhaps from Greek turbē, turmoil.

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  1. from p. turbine =Spanish turbina, turbine, =Italian turbine, a whirlwind, from Latin turbo (turbin-), also turben, anything that whirls around, a wheel, a top, a whirlwind, from turbare, disturb, move, from turba, disturbance, uproar, turmoil, also a crowd: see turbid.
 

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