turbine

Borrowed from French turbine, from Latin turbo, turbinem (“circular movement, top, reel, spindle”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɜ(ɹ)baɪn/, /ˈtɜ(ɹ)bɪn/

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turbine (plural turbines)

1. 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.
   • 2013 July-August, Lee S. Langston, “The Adaptable Gas Turbine”, in American Scientist:

     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.

• turbid
• turbojet, turbo-jet
• turbomachinery

• turbine in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• turbine in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• turbine at OneLook Dictionary Search

• Tribune, tribune, tuberin

• IPA^(key): /turbiːnə/, [ˈtˢuɐ̯ˌb̥iːnə]

turbine c (singular definite turbinen, plural indefinite turbiner)

1. turbine

• “turbine” in Den Danske Ordbog

• IPA^(key): /tʏrˈbinə/

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turbine f (plural turbines, diminutive turbinetje n)

1. turbine

Borrowed from Latin turbo, turbinem.

• IPA^(key): /tyʁbin/

turbine f (plural turbines)

1. turbine

turbine

1. inflection of turbiner:
   1. first-person and third-person singular present indicative and subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “turbine” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• butiner, tribune

turbine f

1. plural of turbina

From Latin turbo, turbinem.

turbine m (plural turbini)

1. whirlwind
2. gust (of wind, snow or dust etc), windflaw

• vortice
• mulinello

• brunite, tribune

turbine

1. ablative singular of turbō

turbine

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of turbinar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of turbinar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of turbinar.
4. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of turbinar.