noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
gas turbine
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the ship’s four gas turbine engines
wind turbine
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
engine
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The facility also has a test bed for Ruston and Solar turbine engines .
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A jet turbine engine may run for 40, 000 hours before being rebuilt.
gas
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Subcontractor, Woodward Governor, also provided an interesting display with the Netcon 500 gas turbine monitoring and control system.
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The batteries are charged on-board by a small gas turbine auxiliary propulsion unit.
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The gas turbine also keeps the batteries topped up.
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One of its most significant features is the choice of a gas turbine rather than internal combustion engine.
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Rolls-Royce has a strong order book in aero gas turbines and the prospect of further large orders in a buoyant aircraft market.
wind
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The seasonal performance might be improved to some extent by using a wind turbine as the energy source.
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Gipe gives values based on rotor diameter for the outputs of a range of wind turbines currently available.
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The toilets are lit with electricity from a wind turbine .
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The organisation hopes to power the village via a wind turbine .
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Another interesting option is the use of wind turbines as windbreaks to reduce wind speed and erosion.
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These, the largest offshore wind turbines in the world, have been tested for three months.
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Britain's 2,000 kilometres of motorway could accomodate 130,000 wind turbines safely and efficiently at a cost of £10,000 for each device.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At operating speed there was no roaring, vibrating, or shaking, just a smooth whine from the turbine .
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In earlier times this had an overshot wheel, later replaced with a turbine .
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It revs like a turbine and sounds like a locomotive. it turns the skin on your arms to gooseflesh.
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Tesla was obsessed by water wheels and turbines.
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That was the genesis of an idea that returned to him years later when he invented a smooth disc turbine without buckets.
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The turbine whined familiarly and the rotors blurred above the cabin.
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The seasonal performance might be improved to some extent by using a wind turbine as the energy source.