turbine ventilator

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noun

a ventilator, usually mounted on the roof of a building, deck of a ship, etc., having at its head a globular, vaned rotor that is rotated by the wind, conveying air through a duct to and from a chamber below.

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How to use turbine ventilator in a sentence

They want money, not to shut off the ventilator of a particular patient.
How Your Pacemaker Will Get Hacked|Kaiser Health News|November 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST
“Sometimes you might withdraw a ventilator in cases of very severe and permanent neurological damage,” Joffe said.
U.K. Courts Grant Mother Right to End Her 12-Year-Old Disabled Daughter’s Life|Elizabeth Picciuto|November 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST
What if a wind turbine could help make an oil rig work more efficiently?
Renewables Can Make Fossil Fuel More Efficient|The Daily Beast|May 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
He lectured the witness that the location of two ventilator fans was very important “because it will show you are lying.”
Pistorius’s Cross-Examination Could Have Been Grounds for a Mistrial in a U.S. Court|James D. Zirin|May 5, 2014|DAILY BEAST

He is paralyzed, breathes through a ventilator, and communicates via a sophisticated computer.
A Brief History of Hawking’s Boycott|Matthew Kalman|May 8, 2013|DAILY BEAST
The main condensers, with their circulating pumps and air pumps, were placed in the turbine room.
Loss of the Steamship 'Titanic'|British Government
The remainder of the auxiliary pumps were placed in the reciprocating and turbine engine rooms.
Loss of the Steamship 'Titanic'|British Government
The turbine is constructed on an axle made of a hatpin which runs through the top of the standards for bearings.
The Boy Mechanic, Book 2|Various
There were no curtains or ventilator-fans, the room was very hot, and the glaring sunshine emphasized its ugliness.
The Girl From Keller's|Harold Bindloss
An opening of several feet in diameter was left at the top of the dome for a skylight, ventilator, and smoke-escape.
Prairie Smoke (Second Edition, Revised)|Melvin Randolph Gilmore