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turbo-electric

[ tur-boh-i-lek-trik ]

adjective

  1. noting, pertaining to, or utilizing machinery that includes a generator driven by a turbine:

    turbo-electric engine; turbo-electric propulsion.



turbo-electric

/ ˌtɜːbəʊɪˈlɛktrɪk /

adjective

  1. of, relating to, or using an electric generator driven by a turbine

    turbo-electric propulsion

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of turbo-electric1

First recorded in 1900–05
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Example Sentences

Where Normandie's turbo-electric power-plant will develop 160,000 h. p.,

Nehru's sophisticated aides, their minds on turbo-electric power, had once brushed off this holy man's ideas.

G-5 revived Cherbourg's waterworks by sending damaged turbo-electric units to England to be rewound, moved 60 tons of coal from Courcelles to Creully to stoke a pasteurization plant and relieve a desperate milk shortage.

At week's end, having taken care of his guest list, Khrushchev traveled to the Baltic harbor of Kaliningrad to board the turbo-electric liner Baltika for New York.

In her motive power she will follow a comparatively new line, first laid down by the United States Navy and later followed by the French�namely, turbo-electric drive.

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