steam turbine

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   turbine in which steam strikes blades and makes them turn

   Broaderturbine

Questions about steam turbine

What does steam turbine mean?

steam turbine means "turbine in which steam strikes blades and makes them turn".

Is steam turbine a common word?

steam 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.