impulse turbine

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noun

a turbine moved by free jets of fluid striking the blades of the rotor together with the axial flow of fluid through the rotor.

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Compare reaction turbine.

Origin of impulse turbine

First recorded in 1880–85

Words nearby impulse turbine

impugn, impuissant, impulse, impulse buying, impulse control disorder, impulse turbine, impulsion, impulsive, impulsive obsession, impulsivity, impundulu

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How to use impulse turbine in a sentence

The impulse to interpret seems to me what makes personal essay writing compelling.
Daphne Merkin on Lena Dunham, Book Criticism, and Self-Examination|Mindy Farabee|December 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In “Not What It Used To Be,” you write about talking to your younger self, which is an impulse I think many of us will understand.
Meghan Daum On Tackling The Unspeakable Parts Of Life|David Yaffe|December 6, 2014|DAILY BEAST
And I was wondering how you combat that impulse to reject the young?
Martin Amis Talks About Nazis, Novels, and Cute Babies|Ronald K. Fried|October 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The question is not whether they are right or wrong but why they feel an impulse to dispense their advice in the first place.
America’s Meddlers Are Our Worst Enemies|Stefan Beck|October 3, 2014|DAILY BEAST

As to whether the MRAP was an impulse buy, Ms. Kroemer assured me it was not.
Why Does My Kids’ Elementary School Need a Tank?|Andy Hinds|September 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST
To reproduce the impulse born of the thought—this is the aim of a psychological method.
Expressive Voice Culture|Jessie Eldridge Southwick
Genoa has but recently and partially felt the new impulse, yet even here the march of improvement is visible.
Glances at Europe|Horace Greeley
It is the dramatic impulse of childhood endeavouring to bring life into the dulness of the serious hours.
Children's Ways|James Sully
Those in whom the impulse is strong and dominant are perhaps those who in later years make the good society actors.
Children's Ways|James Sully
This impulse to extend rule appears more plainly in many of the little ceremonial observances of the child.
Children's Ways|James Sully

British Dictionary definitions for impulse turbine

impulse turbine

noun

a turbine in which the expansion of the fluid, often steam, is completed in a static nozzle, the torque being produced by the change in momentum of the fluid impinging on curved rotor bladesCompare reaction turbine

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