Synonyms for turbine
ˈtɜr bɪn, -baɪntur·bine

Princeton's WordNet

1. turbinenoun

   rotary engine in which the kinetic energy of a moving fluid is converted into mechanical energy by causing a bladed rotor to rotate

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1. • Rotary Engine

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1. List of paraphrases for "turbine":

   turbines, impeller, wind

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1. Andrew Scott:

   The energy itself of tidal streams is familiar to people, it's kinetic energy, so it's not too dissimilar to something like wind, the bits of technology that generate power look not too different to a wind turbine.

2. Bill White:

   Just one rotation of the turbine will power an entire Massachusetts house for a day. It's staggering, there has been an extraordinary acceleration of the technology.

3. Robert Mann:

   If you don't have parts manufacturing authority, then you shouldn't be making it yourself, you don't know what standards were used. Have you gotten the internal characteristic right ? When you put it into a turbine section of an engine, will it perform like it was designed ?

4. Faii Ong:

   That's exactly what we're doing with the glove, except that we are hiking it up. We're spinning the disk faster than a jet turbine, at about 20,000 rpm and we are coupling that directly to the hand.

5. Pascal Radue:

   With a fixed speed turbine, Robert Gleitz have to wait until the power plant is running at exactly the right speed to be synchronized to the grid.