hydroelectric turbine

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   turbine consisting of a large and efficient version of a water wheel used to drive an electric generator

   Broaderturbine

   NarrowerFrancis turbine

Questions about hydroelectric turbine

What does hydroelectric turbine mean?

hydroelectric turbine means "turbine consisting of a large and efficient version of a water wheel used to drive an electric generator".

Is hydroelectric turbine a common word?

hydroelectric turbine is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.