turboprop

See also: Turboprop

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English turbo-

English prop

English turboprop

From turbo- + prop.

Noun

turboprop (plural turboprops)

1. (aeronautics) A type of gas turbine aircraft engine that drives and obtains essentially all thrust from an external (typically unducted) propeller.
2. (aviation) An aircraft that uses a turboprop engine.
   • 2018 August 10, Paige Cornwell, Agueda Pacheco-Flores, “Airplane taken from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport has crashed”, in The Seattle Times‎^[1], archived from the original on 30 August 2018:

     A Horizon Air worker took off Friday night in one of the airline’s Q400 turboprops at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport […]

   • 2018 August 12, David Gutman, Mike Baker, “Sea-Tac officials, airlines to meet Monday to discuss security protocols after turboprop heist”, in The Seattle Times‎^[2], archived from the original on 13 August 2018:

     Leaders at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport are preparing to gather Monday morning to discuss what policies could prevent insider security breaches similar to the Friday night heist of a turboprop plane that later crashed.

Synonyms

• propjet

Coordinate terms

(type of gas-turbine aircraft engine): turbofan, turbojet, turboshaft, propfan, fanjet, HBFJ

Translations

type of gas-turbine aircraft engine

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: տուրբապտուտակային շարժիչ (turbaptutakayin šaržičʻ)
• Azerbaijani: turbopərvanə sg
• Catalan: turbohèlix m, turbohèlice m, turbopropulsor m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (full name) 渦輪螺旋槳（噴射）發動機 / 涡轮螺旋桨（喷射）发动机 (wōlún luóxuánjiǎng [pēnshè] fādòngjī), (abbreviation) 渦槳發動機 / 涡桨发动机 (wōjiǎng fādòngjī)

• Czech: turbovrtulový motor m, proudovrtulový motor m
• Dutch: turboprop (nl)
• Finnish: potkuriturbiini
• French: turbopropulseur (fr) m
• German: Turboprop (de) n, Propellerturbine f, PTL n, Propellerturbinenluftstrahltriebwerk n
• Greek: ελικοστροβιλοκινητήρας (el) m (elikostrovilokinitíras)
• Hindi: टर्बोप्रॉप m (ṭarboprŏp)
• Italian: turboelica (it) f, turbopropulsore (it) m
• Japanese: ^{(please verify)} ターボプロップエンジン
• Korean: ^{(please verify)} 터보프롭 (teobopeurop)
• Polish: silnik turbośmigłowy (pl) m
• Portuguese: turboélice (pt) f
• Russian: турбовинтово́й дви́гатель m (turbovintovój dvígatelʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: turbohélice f, turbopropulsor m
• Vietnamese: động cơ tuabin cánh quạt

aircraft using a turboprop engine

See also

• gas turbine