steam turbine

American  

noun

1. a turbine driven by steam pressure.

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steam turbine British  

noun

1. a turbine driven by steam

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Other Word Forms

• steam-turbine adjective

Etymology

Origin of steam turbine

First recorded in 1890–95

Example Sentences

Traditional heat engines, such as internal combustion engines and steam turbines, operate by turning thermal energy into mechanical motion, or simply converting heat into movement.

From Science Daily

About 200 miles south of Salt Lake City, the Utah Forge geothermal research lab harvests energy from underground, using water hot enough to drive a steam turbine in a conventional power plant.

From The Wall Street Journal

Environmentalists waged a five-year legal battle against the New Hampshire plants, saying that the owner had discharged warm water from steam turbines into a nearby river without cooling it first to match the natural temperature.

From New York Times

Zheng was an engineer specialising in turbine sealing technology and worked on various leakage containment technologies in steam turbine engineering.

From BBC

CPV said it has combined gas and steam turbine projects in operation in Connecticut, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania, and a wind farm in western Oklahoma.

From Seattle Times