steam turbine

English

Noun

steam turbine (plural steam turbines)

1. A system of angled and shaped blades arranged on a rotor through which steam is passed to generate rotational energy. Today, normally used in power stations.
   • 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 139:

     It was opened in 1904 as the largest traction power station in Europe and one of the first to use steam turbines, which have been the only game in town for power stations ever since.

Derived terms

• turbine steamer (TS) (a steamer (watercraft) powered by a steam turbine steam engine)

Translations

system through which steam is passed

• Arabic: عنفة بخارية
• Armenian: շոգետուրբին (šogeturbin)
• Basque: lurrun-turbina
• Bengali: বাষ্পীয় টার্বাইন (baśpiẏo ṭarbain)
• Bulgarian: парна турбина f (parna turbina)
• Catalan: turbina de vapor f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蒸汽渦輪發動機／蒸汽涡轮发动机

• Czech: parní turbína f
• Danish: dampturbine c
• Dutch: stoomturbine (nl) f
• Estonian: auruturbiin
• Finnish: höyryturbiini (fi)
• French: turbine à vapeur f
• Galician: turbina de vapor f
• German: Dampfturbine (de) f
• Greek: ατμοστρόβιλος (el) m (atmostróvilos)
• Hebrew: טוּרְבִּינַת קִיטוֹר (he) f (turbinat kitor)
• Hindi: भाप टरबाइन (bhāp ṭarbāin)
• Hungarian: gőzturbina (hu)
• Ido: vaporoturbino
• Indonesian: turbin uap
• Irish: tuirbín gaile m
• Italian: turbina a vapore f
• Japanese: 蒸気タービン
• Kazakh: бу турбинасы (bu turbinasy)
• Korean: 증기 터빈 (jeunggi teobin)
• Lithuanian: garo turbina f
• Malay: turbin stim
• Navajo: siil béésh náyoołbaał
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: dampturbin m

  Nynorsk: dampturbin m

• Persian: توربین بخار
• Polish: turbina parowa f
• Portuguese: turbina a vapor f
• Romanian: turbină cu abur f
• Russian: парова́я турби́на (ru) f (parovája turbína)
• Serbo-Croatian: parna turbina f
• Sinhalese: වාෂ්ප ටර්බයිනය (wāṣpa ṭarbayinaya)
• Slovak: parná turbína f
• Slovene: parna turbina f
• Spanish: turbina de vapor f
• Swedish: ångturbin (sv) c
• Tamil: நீராவிச்சுழலி (nīrāviccuḻali)
• Thai: กังหันไอน้ำ (gang-hǎn-ai-náam)
• Turkish: buhar türbini
• Ukrainian: парова турбіна f (parova turbina)
• Uzbek: bugʻ turbinasi
• Vietnamese: động cơ tuốc bin hơi nước
• West Frisian: stoomturbine