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Type of aero engine
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turboprop
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WordNet
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n. airplane powered by a turbojet engine [syn: turbojet ] an airplane with an external propeller that is driven by a turbojet engine [syn: propjet , turbo-propeller plane ]
Wikipedia
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A turboprop engine is a turbine engine that drives an aircraft propeller . In contrast to a turbojet , the engine's exhaust gases do not contain enough energy to create significant thrust, since almost all of the engine's power is used to drive the propeller. ...
Wiktionary
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n. A type of gas turbine aircraft engine that drives and obtains essentially all thrust from an external (typically unducted) propeller.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ All my fellow passengers in the turboprop are asleep. ▪ And, oh yes, is it a jet or a turboprop ? ▪ For the second year, Shelton's' Cat sported a new composite proboscis from a P-3 Orion turboprop . ▪ The turboprop has also undergone ...
Usage examples of turboprop.
On that first visit, the bumpy, prayer-inducing descent in the turboprop persuaded me that the four-hour drive from Denver up through the Rockies, high, winding, fenceless passes and all, was the less intimidating choice.
We got it turboprop engines reverbrated through the interior with a all under control.
And while the upper probe had those massive free-flight turboprops, there was no indication of any engines at all on the lower ovoid.
I had my usual trouble with forms, but we made it and boarded a Tropicair Cessna Grand Caravan (15 seats including the pilot, and a single turboprop engine).