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turbine

/tur-bin, -bahyn/US // ˈtɜr bɪn, -baɪn //UK // (ˈtɜːbɪn, -baɪn) //

涡轮机,汽轮机,透平机,涡轮

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : any of various machines having a rotor, usually with vanes or blades, driven by the pressure, momentum, or reactive thrust of a moving fluid, as steam, water, hot gases, or air, either occurring in the form of free jets or as a fluid passing through and entirely filling a housing around the rotor.

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Examples

  • At a length of 107 meters, each turbine blade is longer than a professional soccer pitch.

  • Wind turbines in particular, despite the president’s claim, are a very safe form of clean energy.

  • That turbine harvests that energy, and some of that energy then fuels the low-pressure turbine, which powers the fan in the front.

  • The turbines would cost customers $300 million and generate 12 megawatts of electricity, enough to power only 3,000 homes with sustained winds.

  • If it all works out, the new turbines could produce as much as 33 percent more power and become practical in more places.

  • What if a wind turbine could help make an oil rig work more efficiently?

  • The title was On the Whirlwind During the Night of June 11– 12 (Sopra il turbine che la notte tra gli XI e XII giugno).

  • But he found work at Energetx, a wind turbine manufacturer in Michigan.

  • Similar incentives convinced Siemens to expand its wind turbine factory in Fort Madison Iowa.

  • Unfortunately for Crist, it will likely take a turbine engine to generate enough wind in his flagging sails to overtake Rubio.

  • The main condensers, with their circulating pumps and air pumps, were placed in the turbine room.

  • The remainder of the auxiliary pumps were placed in the reciprocating and turbine engine rooms.

  • The turbine is constructed on an axle made of a hatpin which runs through the top of the standards for bearings.

  • The impact of the escaping steam on the air sets the globe revolving, and the principle of the turbine engine at work is clear.

  • The main fact about the modern man as regards poetry is, that he prefers poetry that has this reserved turbine-wheel trait in it.