Glossary · term

Turbine

Machines

Aliases
turbines
Domain
Machines

Definition

A rotor of blades that a moving fluid — steam, gas, water, wind — spins as it passes. Reaction turbines run full of fluid under pressure; impulse turbines take a jet.

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