GAS-TURBINE ENGINE

any internal-combustion engine employing a gas as the working fluid used to turn a turbine. The term also is conventionally used to describe a complete internal-combustion engine consisting of at least a compressor, a combustion chamber, and a turbine. Additional reading Gas-turbine engines are treated in William W. Bathie, Fundamentals of Gas Turbines (1984); and Frank Whittle, Gas Turbine Aero-thermodynamics: With Special Reference to Aircraft Propulsion (1981). The Editors of the Encyclopdia Britannica