turbofan engine

1. 1.

   a jet engine in which a fan driven by a turbine provides extra air to the burner and gives extra thrust

   Synonymsfanjetfan-jetfanjet engineturbojetturbojet engineturbofan

   Broaderjet engine

   Part offanjetpropjet

   Partsafterburnergas turbine

Questions about turbofan engine

What does turbofan engine mean?

turbofan engine means "a jet engine in which a fan driven by a turbine provides extra air to the burner and gives extra thrust".

What is another word for turbofan engine?

Close synonyms include fanjet, fan-jet, fanjet engine, turbojet, turbojet engine. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is turbofan engine a common word?

turbofan engine 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.