Definitions for Turbines
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1. turbines

   A turbine ( or ) (from the Greek τύρβη, tyrbē, or Latin turbo, meaning vortex) is a rotary mechanical device that extracts energy from a fluid flow and converts it into useful work. The work produced by a turbine can be used for generating electrical power when combined with a generator. A turbine is a turbomachine with at least one moving part called a rotor assembly, which is a shaft or drum with blades attached. Moving fluid acts on the blades so that they move and impart rotational energy to the rotor. Early turbine examples are windmills and waterwheels. Gas, steam, and water turbines have a casing around the blades that contains and controls the working fluid. Credit for invention of the steam turbine is given both to Anglo-Irish engineer Sir Charles Parsons (1854–1931) for invention of the reaction turbine, and to Swedish engineer Gustaf de Laval (1845–1913) for invention of the impulse turbine. Modern steam turbines frequently employ both reaction and impulse in the same unit, typically varying the degree of reaction and impulse from the blade root to its periphery. Hero of Alexandria demonstrated the turbine principle in an aeolipile in the first century AD and Vitruvius mentioned them around 70 BC. The word "turbine" was coined in 1822 by the French mining engineer Claude Burdin from the Greek τύρβη, tyrbē, meaning "vortex" or "whirling", in a memo, "Des turbines hydrauliques ou machines rotatoires à grande vitesse", which he submitted to the Académie royale des sciences in Paris. Benoit Fourneyron, a former student of Claude Burdin, built the first practical water turbine.

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1. tuberins

2. tribunes

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Turbines in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Turbines in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of Turbines in a Sentence

1. Lewis Grove:

   Wind turbines — they're big and they move and they're up in the sky, obviously, collisions with birds are a real concern.

2. Lewis Grove:

   Our organization really wants to focus on how we go through this transition and deliberately do it in a way that does not unnecessarily impact bird populations, wind turbines — they're big and they move and they're up in the sky, obviously.

3. Liza Whitmore:

   If lake levels fall below those elevations later this summer, DWR will, for the first time, cease generation at Edward Hyatt Power Plant due to lack of sufficient water to turn the plant's electrical generation turbines.

4. Thierry Kalanquin:

   We hope to get one billion euros in sales in tidal turbines in ten years.

5. Ben Hoen:

   There have been individual homes that have been adversely impacted by wind turbines.

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   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbines