turbine.
(Of thelat. )( turbo,-inis, whirlpool).
1. f. hydraulic wheel with pallet placed curves on its periphery, which receives water from the Center and her farewell in tangent direction to the circumference, which takes as much as possible of the driving force.
2. f. machine designed to transform into rotary movement of a wheel of palettes the living force or pressure of a fluid. Turbine steam.
