turbogenerator

1. 1.

   generator consisting of a steam turbine coupled to an electric generator for the production of electric power

   Broadergenerator

   Part ofpower station

Other forms of turbogenerator

plural

turbogenerators·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about turbogenerator

What does turbogenerator mean?

turbogenerator means "generator consisting of a steam turbine coupled to an electric generator for the production of electric power".

How many syllables are in turbogenerator?

turbogenerator has 6 syllables: tur-bo-ge-ne-ra-tor. The stress falls on "ne".

Is turbogenerator a common word?

turbogenerator 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.