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語源

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

発音

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

名詞

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, archived from the original on 7 September 2013:

     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. […] Through the efforts of many thousands of engineers in the intervening 70 years or so, such gas turbines have come to dominate aircraft propulsion and, with their now-unmatched thermal efficiency and low cost, are the superstars of electric power plants.

派生語

関連する語

• turbid
• turbojet, turbo-jet
• turbomachinery

Further reading

• “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.

アナグラム

• Tribune, tribune, Buterin, tuberin