turbine

See also: Turbine and turbiné

English

A radial turbine

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɜ(ɹ)baɪn/, /ˈtɜ(ɹ)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
• steam turbine
• turbo-
• water turbine
• wind turbine

 

Related terms

• turbid
• turbojet, turbo-jet
• turbomachinery

Translations

rotary machine

• Albanian: turbinë (sq)
• Armenian: տուրբին (hy) (turbin)
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: turbína (cs) f
• Danish: turbine c
• Esperanto: turbino
• Finnish: turbiini (fi)
• French: turbine (fr) f
• Galician: turbina f
• German: Turbine (de) f
• Greek: στρόβιλος (el) m (stróvilos), στροβιλομηχανή f (strovilomichaní)
• Hungarian: turbina (hu)
• Ido: turbino (io)
• Indonesian: turbin (id)
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• Irish: tuirbín m
• Italian: turbina (it) f, rotore (it) m
• Japanese: タービン (ja) (tābin)
• Korean: 터빈 (teobin)
• Macedonian: турби́на f (turbína)
• Maori: tāpaina
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: turbin (no) m

  Nynorsk: turbin m

• Polish: turbina (pl) f
• Portuguese: turbina (pt) f
• Russian: турби́на (ru) f (turbína)
• Spanish: turbina f
• 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

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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

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʏrˈbinə/

• Audio

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Noun

turbine f (plural turbines, diminutive turbinetje n)

1. turbine

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin turbo, turbinem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tyʁ.bin/

Noun

turbine f (plural turbines)

1. turbine

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

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Italian

Noun

turbine f

1. plural of turbina

Etymology 2

From Latin turbo, turbinem.

turbine m (plural turbini)

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

Synonyms

• vortice
• mulinello

Anagrams

• brunite, tribune

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Latin

Noun

(deprecated template usage) turbine

1. ablative singular of turbō

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Spanish

Verb

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.