impulse turbine

1. 1.

   a turbine that is driven by jets direct against the blades

   Broaderturbine

Questions about impulse turbine

What does impulse turbine mean?

impulse turbine means "a turbine that is driven by jets direct against the blades".

Is impulse turbine a common word?

impulse 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.