steam turbine
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of steam turbine
First recorded in 1890–95
Example Sentences
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But is the steam turbine “fired” by the fossil fuel?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 2026
Zheng was an engineer specialising in turbine sealing technology and worked on various leakage containment technologies in steam turbine engineering.
From BBC ● Jan. 16, 2023
Indeed, the steam turbine, invented by Sir Charles Parsons in 1884, provided efficient power for river- and ocean-going vessels.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
The Chernobyl disaster occurred after a safety test on a nuclear reactor's steam turbine went wrong and the administrators accidentally caused an uncontrolled nuclear chain reaction.
From Salon ● Mar. 11, 2022
Wollaston has given the following figures for the number of British thermal units consumed per brake horse-power hour: steam-engine 19,000; steam turbine 21,000; gas-engine 15,000; Diesel engine 9000.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura by Various
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