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turboprop
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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 ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A type of gas turbine aircraft engine that drives and obtains essentially all thrust from an external (typically unducted) propeller.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
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 ]
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).