Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A turbojet engine used to drive an external propeller.
- noun An aircraft in which a turboprop is used.
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- noun A type of
gas turbine aircraft engine that drives and obtains essentially all thrust from an external (typically unducted)propeller .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an airplane with an external propeller that is driven by a turbojet engine
Etymologies
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Examples
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Jubba's 1,000-year old four-engine Russian Ilyushin 18 turboprop is something out of science retro-fiction.
Mike Arkus: Off the Beaten Track: A Few Pointers for Navigating Somaliland (PHOTOS) Mike Arkus 2010
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Jubba's 1,000-year old four-engine Russian Ilyushin 18 turboprop is something out of science retro-fiction.
Mike Arkus: Off the Beaten Track: A Few Pointers for Navigating Somaliland (PHOTOS) Mike Arkus 2010
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Jubba's 1,000-year old four-engine Russian Ilyushin 18 turboprop is something out of science retro-fiction.
Mike Arkus: Off the Beaten Track: A Few Pointers for Navigating Somaliland (PHOTOS) Mike Arkus 2010
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Mr. Pineau and the four other men on the twin turboprop completed their mission and refueled for a new assignment at an airfield in ChuLai on the coast of South Vietnam.
Pineau, Roland R. 2007
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The frequency of Latin American turboprop crashing was more than five times the world-wide rate for all commercial aircraft crashes world-wide, and some 50 times higher than the accident rate for jetliners in the U.S.
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Grumman E2A Hawkeye was a strange-looking aircraft, with twin turboprop engines, four vertical stabilizers (three of which were actually necessary for controlled flight, the remaining surface being added for appearance's sake), and a large,
Bushnell, Brian L. 1990
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Grumman E2A Hawkeye was a strange-looking aircraft, with twin turboprop engines, four vertical stabilizers (three of which were actually necessary for controlled flight, the remaining surface being added for appearance's sake), and a large, 24-foot diameter radome which rotated at six revolutions per minute, on a pylon directly above the fuselage.
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Grumman E2A Hawkeye was a strange-looking aircraft, with twin turboprop engines, four vertical stabilizers (three of which were actually necessary for controlled flight, the remaining surface being added for appearance's sake), and a large, 24-foot diameter radome which rotated at six revolutions per minute, on a pylon directly above the fuselage.
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Grumman E2A Hawkeye was a strange-looking aircraft, with twin turboprop engines, four vertical stabilizers (three of which were actually necessary for controlled flight, the remaining surface being added for appearance's sake), and a large, 24-foot diameter radome which rotated at six revolutions per minute, on a pylon directly above the fuselage.
Knight, Larry C. 1990
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Pesawat bermesin berupa dua unit "turboprop" rolls Royce Dart RDa Mk 536-7R, merupakan pesawat turboprop terlaris yang banyak digunakan baik untuk militer maupun komersial.
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