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Type of jet engine
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turbofan
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. jet engine in which a turbine drives air to the burner [syn: turbojet , turbojet engine , turbofan engine ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The turbofan or fanjet is a type of airbreathing jet engine that is widely used in aircraft propulsion. The word "turbofan" is a portmanteau of "turbine" and "fan": the turbo portion refers to a gas turbine engine which achieves mechanical energy from combustion, ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A turbojet engine having a (typically ducted) fan that forces air directly into the hot exhaust and obtains a portion of the thrust from the turbojet and a portion from the turbojet section.
Usage examples of turbofan.
The thrust of her quad turbofan engines, already blazing with power, carried her into the night.
He walked inside the shelter and approached two technicians working on the left Tumanskii turbofan of his beloved Mig-29 Fulcrum.
Using the surviving turbofan and the little that remained of hydraulics, Lancaster pulled out of the spin and managed to level off just as a Mig-29 rolled behind him.
Kevin applied full throttle, but was disappointed at the sluggishness of his craft with only one turbofan providing the thrust, even in full afterburner.
Schofield looked back through his rear windshield, through the blur of his rear turbofan and saw the three hovercrafts behind him.
In the cabin, Schofield quickly jammed the big vehicle into reverse and engaged the turbofan again.
AL-31FM turbofan on either side, jointly generating almost 60,000 pounds of thrust, Hua was the master of the eternal forces of air and fire, water and earth.
Her twin turbofan engines hung like afterthoughts at the twin-rudder tail, itself a throwback to the thirties.
Whitney turbofan jet engines, providing a cruising speed of six hundred and five miles per hour.
Twice the speed of sound was achieved by the four General Electric turbofan afterburners 50,000 feet above an oil-rig colossus whose platform looked like a pinhead, 300 nautical miles east of the Bay of Fundy.
Kamil was congratulating the commander of the Amn Al-Khass unit that had finally overrun the UN assassination team when the whine of an Allison Rolls Royce AE3007H turbofan jet engine passing almost directly overhead made them all instinctively duck.
Rolls-Royce Pegasus Three turbofan that could supply 23,000 pounds of thrust, thundered to life.
Japan Air Lines as, a week later, James Bond settled into the comfortable window seat of the four-jet, turbofan Douglas DC-8 at London Airport and listened to the torrent of soft Japanese coming from the tannoy that would be saying all those things about life jackets and the flying time to Orly.
Bobbie Jo punched up her engines and dove, turbofans screaming, to the roof of a tandem-trailered truck just then sluicing down the incline and into the dark of the transitway tunnel.
Thorvin wound up his turbofans and slid forward, weaving around the ankles of Shank and Rico and advancing to the end of the passage.