turbine

See also: Turbine and turbiné

English

A radial turbine

Etymology

Borrowed from French turbine, from Latin turbō, turbinem (“tornado, whirlwind; crowd”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtəːˌbaɪn/, /ˈtəːˌbɪn/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtɚˌbaɪn/, /ˈtɚ.bɪn/

  • Audio (US)

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Noun

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.

Derived terms

• gas turbine
• ram air turbine
• steam turbine
• turbo-
• water turbine
• wind turbine

 

Related terms

• turbid
• turbojet, turbo-jet
• turbomachinery

Translations

rotary machine

• Albanian: turbinë (sq)
• Arabic: عَنَفَة‎ (ar) f (ʕanafa), تُرْبِين‎ m (turbīn)
• Armenian: տուրբին (hy) (turbin)
• Azerbaijani: turbin
• Basque: turbina (eu)
• Belarusian: турбі́на f (turbína)
• Bengali: টারবাইন (ṭarbain)
• Bulgarian: турби́на f (turbína)
• Burmese: တာဘိုင် (tabhuing)
• Catalan: turbina (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 渦輪機／涡轮机 (zh) (wōlúnjī), 輪機／轮机 (zh) (lúnjī), 透平機／透平机 (zh) (tòupíngjī) (loan word)

• Czech: turbína (cs) f
• Danish: turbine c
• Dutch: turbine (nl) f
• Esperanto: turbino
• Estonian: turbiin
• Finnish: turbiini (fi)
• French: turbine (fr) f
• Galician: turbina f
• Georgian: ტურბინა (ṭurbina)
• German: Turbine (de) f
• Greek: στρόβιλος (el) m (stróvilos), στροβιλομηχανή f (strovilomichaní)
• Hebrew: טוּרְבִּינָה‎ (he) f (turbína)
• Hindi: टर्बाइन m (ṭarbāin)
• Hungarian: turbina (hu)
• Ido: turbino (io)
• Indonesian: turbin (id)
• Irish: tuirbín m
• Italian: turbina (it) f, rotore (it) m
• Japanese: タービン (ja) (tābin)
• Kazakh: турбина (turbina)
• Khmer: តួប៊ីន (tuəbiin)
• Korean: 터빈 (teobin)
• Kyrgyz: турбина (ky) (turbina)
• Lao: ກັງຫັນ (kang han)
• Latvian: turbīna f
• Lithuanian: turbina f
• Macedonian: турби́на f (turbína)
• Malay: turbin (ms)
• Maori: tāpaina
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: turbin (no) m

  Nynorsk: turbin m

• Persian: توربین‎ (fa) (turbin)
• Polish: turbina (pl) f
• Portuguese: turbina (pt) f
• Russian: турби́на (ru) f (turbína)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: турби́на f

  Roman: turbína (sh) f

• Slovak: turbína f
• Slovene: turbina f
• Spanish: turbina f
• Swedish: turbin (sv) c
• Tajik: турбина (turbina)
• Thai: กังหัน (th) (gang-hǎn)
• Turkish: türbin (tr)
• Ukrainian: турбі́на f (turbína)
• Urdu: ٹَربائِن‎ m (ṭarbāin)
• Uzbek: turbina (uz)
• Vietnamese: tua-bin (vi)
• Welsh: tyrbin m

Further reading

• “turbine”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “turbine”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “turbine”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• Tribune, tribune, tuberin

Danish

Pronunciation

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

Noun

turbine c (singular definite turbinen, plural indefinite turbiner)

1. turbine

Declension

Declension of turbine

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	turbine	turbinen	turbiner	turbinerne
genitive	turbines	turbinens	turbiners	turbinernes

References

• “turbine” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʏrˈbinə/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

turbine f (plural turbines, diminutive turbinetje n)

1. turbine

Descendants

• → Indonesian: turbin

French

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin turbinem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tyʁ.bin/

Noun

turbine f (plural turbines)

1. turbine

Derived terms

• turbine à combustion
• turbine à gaz
• turbiner

Descendants

• → Catalan: turbina
• → Danish: turbine
• → English: turbine
• → Galician: turbina
• → Italian: turbina
• → Norwegian Bokmål: turbin
• → Norwegian Nynorsk: turbin
• → Portuguese: turbina
• → Serbo-Croatian: turbína, турби́на
• → Spanish: turbina

Etymology 2

Verb

turbine

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

Further reading

• “turbine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• butiner, tribune

Italian

Etymology 1

From Latin turbinem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtur.bi.ne/
• Rhymes: -urbine
• Hyphenation: tùr‧bi‧ne

Noun

turbine m (plural turbini)

1. whirlwind

   Synonyms: vortice, mulinello

2. gust (of wind, snow, dust, etc.)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French turbine, from Latin turbinem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /turˈbi.ne/
• Rhymes: -ine
• Hyphenation: tur‧bì‧ne

Noun

turbine

1. plural of turbina

Anagrams

• brunite, nerbuti, tribune

Latin

Noun

turbine

1. ablative singular of turbō

Spanish

Verb

turbine

1. inflection of turbinar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative