turbine

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

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtɜː.baɪn/, /ˈtɜː.bɪn/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈtɝ.baɪn/, /ˈtɝ.bɪn/

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈtɜː.bɑɪn/, /ˈtɜː.bɪn/

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.
   • 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 98:

     Upstream from the house is a watermill, cased in gleaming white weather-boarding, which has been restored to working order. Near by is the water-driven turbine which [Rudyard] Kipling had installed in 1902 to light his mansion with electricity.

   • 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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “turbine”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “turbine”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• Tribune, tribune, Buterin, 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

• → Indonesian: turbin

• “turbine” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]

Borrowed from Latin turbinem.

• IPA^(key): /tyʁ.bin/

turbine f (plural turbines)

1. turbine

• turbine à combustion
• turbine à gaz
• turbiner

turbine

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

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

• butiner, tribune

turbine f (plural turbinis)

1. turbine

• https://arlef.it/grant-dizionari-bilenghe-talian-furlan/?word=turbina&trad=ttf

From Latin turbinem.

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

turbine m (plural turbini)

1. whirlwind

   Synonyms: vortice, mulinello

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

Borrowed from French turbine, from Latin turbinem.

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

turbine

1. plural of turbina

• brunite, nerbuti, tribune

turbine

1. ablative singular of turbō

turbine

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

turbine

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