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turbine

noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈtɜː.baɪn/
  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈtɜː.bɪn/
  • Canada, General-American: /ˈtɝ.baɪn/
  • Canada, General-American: /ˈtɝ.bɪn/
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • Australian: /ˈtɜː.bɑɪn/
  • Australian: /ˈtɜː.bɪn/
  • CMU ARPABET: T ER1 B AY0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 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.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

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

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: rotary engine

Narrower terms: gas turbine, hydroelectric turbine, impulse turbine, reaction turbine, steam turbine, wind turbine

History

Etymology

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

Across languages

Translations

65 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Albanian: turbinë — rotary machine
  • Arabic: عَنَفَة (ʕanafa) — rotary machine
  • Arabic: تُرْبِين (turbīn) — rotary machine
  • Armenian: տուրբին (turbin) — rotary machine
  • Azerbaijani: turbin — rotary machine
  • Basque: turbina — rotary machine
  • Belarusian: турбі́на (turbína) — rotary machine
  • Bengali: টারবাইন (ṭarbain) — rotary machine
  • Bulgarian: турби́на (turbína) — rotary machine
  • Burmese: တာဘိုင် (tabhuing) — rotary machine
  • Catalan: turbina — rotary machine
  • Chinese Mandarin: 渦輪機 /涡轮机 (wōlúnjī) — rotary machine
  • Chinese Mandarin: 輪機 /轮机 (lúnjī) — rotary machine
  • Chinese Mandarin: 透平機 /透平机 (tòupíngjī) — rotary machine
  • Czech: turbína — rotary machine
  • Danish: turbine — rotary machine
  • Dutch: turbine — rotary machine
  • Esperanto: turbino — rotary machine
  • Estonian: turbiin — rotary machine
  • Finnish: turbiini — rotary machine
  • French: turbine — rotary machine
  • Galician: turbina — rotary machine
  • Georgian: ტურბინა (ṭurbina) — rotary machine
  • German: Turbine — rotary machine
  • Greek: στρόβιλος (stróvilos) — rotary machine
  • Greek: στροβιλομηχανή (strovilomichaní) — rotary machine
  • Hebrew: טוּרְבִּינָה (turbína) — rotary machine
  • Hindi: टर्बाइन (ṭarbāin) — rotary machine
  • Hungarian: turbina — rotary machine
  • Ido: turbino — rotary machine
  • Indonesian: turbin — rotary machine
  • Irish: tuirbín — rotary machine
  • Italian: turbina — rotary machine
  • Italian: rotore — rotary machine
  • Japanese: タービン (tābin) — rotary machine
  • Kazakh: турбина (turbina) — rotary machine
  • Khmer: តួប៊ីន (tuəbiin) — rotary machine
  • Korean: 터빈 (teobin) — rotary machine
  • Kyrgyz: турбина (turbina) — rotary machine
  • Lao: ກັງຫັນ (kang han) — rotary machine
  • Latvian: turbīna — rotary machine
  • Lithuanian: turbina — rotary machine
  • Macedonian: турби́на (turbína) — rotary machine
  • Malay: turbin — rotary machine
  • Māori: tāpaina — rotary machine
  • Norwegian Bokmål: turbin — rotary machine
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: turbin — rotary machine
  • Persian: توربین (turbin) — rotary machine
  • Polish: turbina — rotary machine
  • Portuguese: turbina — rotary machine
  • Russian: турби́на (turbína) — rotary machine
  • Serbo-Croatian: турби́на — rotary machine
  • Serbo-Croatian: turbína — rotary machine
  • Slovak: turbína — rotary machine
  • Slovene: turbina — rotary machine
  • Spanish: turbina — rotary machine
  • Swedish: turbin — rotary machine
  • Tajik: турбина (turbina) — rotary machine
  • Thai: กังหัน (gang-hǎn) — rotary machine
  • Turkish: türbin — rotary machine
  • Ukrainian: турбі́на (turbína) — rotary machine
  • Urdu: ٹَربائِن (ṭarbāin) — rotary machine
  • Uzbek: turbina — rotary machine
  • Vietnamese: tua-bin — rotary machine
  • Welsh: tyrbin — rotary machine
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