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noun
a turbine driven by steam pressure.
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Origin of steam turbine
First recorded in 1890–95
OTHER WORDS FROM steam turbine
steam-turbine, adjectiveWords nearby steam turbine
steamship,
steam shovel,
steam table,
steamtight,
steam trap,
steam turbine,
steam up,
steam whistle,
steamy,
Ste. Anne de Beaupré,
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How to use steam turbine in a sentence
In 1950, 97 percent of British electricity came from burning coal to drive steam turbines in power plants.
Commissioned in 1965, it was for a time the largest steam turbine in the world.
In 2006, the firm presided over a routine steam-injection procedure known as “well stimulation.”
Parenting a kid that can get from place to place under his own steam is a whole new ballgame.
But as one deadly malady loses steam, another may be exploding: hunger.
Either way, the Navy is proceeding full steam ahead in preparing the DDG-1000 for sea.
In the 19th century, steam-powered printing presses led to mass circulations newspapers and magazines.
A colossal steam "traveller" had ceaselessly carried great blocks of stone and long steel girders from point to point.
Two huge steam engines had snorted and puffed for three whole years.
Greenlaw (Charles P.), his efforts in obtaining steam for India, 560.
The steamboat of 1809 and the steam locomotive of 1830 were the direct result of what had gone before.
The Comet started on her first trip up the Arkansas, being the first steam boat that ascended that river.
British Dictionary definitions for steam turbine
noun
a turbine driven by steam
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