Turbine
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A water wheel, commonly horizontal, variously constructed, butusually having a series of curved floats or buckets, against whichthe water acts by its impulse or reaction in flowing either outwardfrom a central chamber, inward from an external casing, or from abovedownward, etc.; -- also called turbine wheel.
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I'm sorry, I'm sick of nobody knowing anything. A turbine is a rotary device which converts kinetic fluid energy into mechanical energy. This INCLUDES windmills, also known as WIND TURBINES. A moving fluid (steam, air, water, oil, gas) strikes the blades of a turbine which are mounted on a common shaft and causes the shaft to turn. A turbine can be the Francis wheel of a dam's power station, it can be the rotor of a windmill at Altamont Pass, it can be the exhaust-driven wheel in your car's turbocharger which spins the compressor, it can be part of a jet engine. Your car's automatic transmission has a turbine in it; the impeller in the torque converter driven by the engine forces oil against the blades of a turbine, causing it to turn and driving the rest of the car's driveline.
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A crude pot smoking device made out of a bottle, tape, bag and a socket
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A machine where the [kinetic energy] of matter is converted to mechanical power by the impulse or reaction of the matter with a series of buckets, [paddles], or blades located around the [circumference] of a wheel or cylinder...... Also, Pianos and Organs are the same shit.
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Turbine simplifies routine office admin including purchase orders, time off requests, expenses claims and HR record-keeping. A software product by TurbineHq
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Data management solution designed to give you insight into your company to help advertisers make better buying decisions. A software product by Xaxis
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a type of machine through which liquid or gas flows and turns a special wheel with blades in order to produce power:
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