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gas turbine
noun
a turbine utilizing the gaseous products of combustion.
Origin:
1900–05
1900–05
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| gas turbine | |
| —n | |
| an internal-combustion engine in which the expanding gases emerging from one or more combustion chambers drive a turbine. A rotary compressor driven by the turbine compresses the air used for combustion, power being taken either as torque from the turbine or thrust from the expanding gases | |
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Science Dictionary
| gas turbine
An internal-combustion engine consisting of an air compressor, combustion chamber, and turbine wheel that is turned by the expanding products of combustion. The four major types of gas turbine engines are the turboprop, turbojet, turbofan, and turboshaft. See more at turbojet. |
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Encyclopedia Britannica
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gas turbine
any internal-combustion engine employing a gas as the working fluid used to turn a turbine. The term also is conventionally used to describe a complete internal-combustion engine consisting of at least a compressor, a combustion chamber, and a turbine.
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Example sentences
The gas turbine is used to drive generators that then provide electricity to the ship's propeller motors.
But tilt rotors and rotary wings are powered by piston engines or gas turbine engines.
Gas turbine engine also uses much less number of parts.
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