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n. (gas turbine English)
Usage examples of "gas turbines".
Invincible and her sister ships Illustrious and Ark Royal, were powered by four mighty Rolls-Royce TM3B twin-shaft gas turbines, designed on a modular principle, making maintenance and repair an easier job.
My guess is that they can recover some of the heat from the gas turbines' operation, use it to boil water, then make steam and drive these babies for even more power.
Aft of it was the gear room - where the clutch-gear was, for clutching-in the gas turbines - and abaft that again was the gas-turbine room.
Probably powered by gas turbines that can kick it up to speeds twice that of comparable boats.
The highly explosive fuel for the gas turbines had gone off at the same time.
Their huge Rolls-Royce gas turbines were removed and replaced with things that worked on the same principle as Ian's emergency generator, but which turned impellers rather than electric generators.
Airships, great and small, plied the skies, driven by battery-powered motors, although there were a few jets, their gas turbines burning a hydrogen-oxygen mixture.
Two props and four gas turbines give her a speed of forty knots with payload.
Tall clay structures not unlike termite mounds dotted the open spaces between the ferns: they hummed quietly with a noise like a million microscopic gas turbines.
Vonnegut: I was working for General Electric at the time, right after World War Two, and I saw a milling machine for cutting the rotors on jet engines, gas turbines.
Soon matters turned to steam engines and gas turbines, and rockmilk, and the gearwork of a harness, and bits and bridles the size of ships.
At the near end, Mike saw four big gas turbines driving generators, leading into what seemed to be gigantic oil capacitors, and a small control board connected to them.
These were huge sixty-four wheelers, big as houses, powered by gas turbines so loud their roar shook the city for blocks.
Lightly armed, lightly armored, and with only a single shaft driven by two gas turbines, Perry FFGs had struggled valiantly to fill their new budget-conscious roles.