turbo-
pref.（前缀）
语源
pref.（前缀）
- Turbine:
涡轮（机）：
turbocharger.
涡轮增压器 - Driven by a turbine:
涡轮推动的：
turbojet.
涡轮喷气式飞机
语源
- From turbine
源自 turbine
turbo-
combining form
of, relating to, or driven by a turbine
⇒
turbofan
turbo-
Word Origin
1
a combining form representing turbine, in compound words:
turbojet.
Origin
turb(ine) + -o-
Related Words
- turbocharge
- turbocharger
- turbofan
- turbojet
- turboprop
- turbopump
turbo-an adjective prefix indicating:
1. driven by a turbine.
2. of or relating to a turbine.
turbo-
combining form
turbofan
2. consisting of or incorporating a turbine
turbojet engine
combining form
ETYMOLOGY turbine
1. coupled directly to a driving turbineturbofan
2. consisting of or incorporating a turbine
turbojet engine
turbo-
combining form
- having or driven by a turbine表示“涡轮的”, “涡轮推动的”：
-
turboshaft.
词源
from TURBINE.
1900 Engineer 2 Nov. 444/3 Tests..on two *turbo alternators of 1000 kilowatts per hour nominal output.
1902 Sloane Stand. Electr. Dict. App. ,Turbo-alternator, an alternating current dynamo coupled direct to a high-speed steam turbine.
1911 Trans. Inst. Mining Engineers XL. 580 (heading)*Turbo-blowers and turbo-compressors.
1947 Jrnl. R.Aeronaut. Soc. LI. 95/1For high altitude cruising the application of turbo-blowers has received much consideration.
1979 Truck & Bus Transportation ( Austral. ) Feb. 41/2With a turboblower, you literally shovel the air in.
[ 1950Motor 15 Mar. 183/1 (caption) The Rover turbine car easily reached 90 m.p.h. ]
1956 Times 3 July 4/6 The Rover *turbocar..was timed at 152 m.p.h.
1974 D. Nye Motor Racing Mavericks xix. 190This turbine car sparked off a terrific controversy... Wallis was taken on..to build two cars similar to his ‘STP Turbocar’.
1954 Economist 11 Sept. 11/3 *Turbo-compound; piston compound. A combination of gas turbine and reciprocating engine.
1955 C. E. Chapel et al. Aircraft Power Plants (ed. 2) xvii. 339/2Aircraft powered by the Wright turbo-compound engine are the Douglas DC-7, the Lockheed Super Constellation, . [ etc.]
1983 Truck & Bus Transportation ( Austral. ) July 60/2Whilst the turbocompound diesel has progressed to the operational stage..the benefits of this concept can be more fully realised and cost justified when used in conjunction with an adiabatic or insulated engine.
1978 Automotive Engin. Aug. 85/1In a *turbocompounded engine..the exhaust gases are expanded in a turbine and the power generated is transmitted back to the crankshaft. *Turbocompounding can be incorporated in naturally aspirated, as well as turbocharged engines.
1911 *Turbo-compressor . [ see turbo-blower above]
1922 Daily Mail Year Bk. 1923 75/1By the development of a mechanism known as a ‘turbo-compressor’, he has enabled aero-engines to maintain their power in the thin air of upper altitudes.
1979 A. L. Lydersen Fluid Flow & Heat Transfer xi. 327Turbo-compressors are used for vapour recompression of large vapour volumes..while steam ejectors are used in many smaller installations.
1948 Oil & Gas Jrnl. 3 June 58/3During initial field tests conducted in May.., the new Edco *Turbodrill penetrated 950 ft. of shallow section in a wildcat test drilling.
Ibid. 61/1Photoclinometer and hole-section surveys showed a total drift of 3 ft. or 10½ minutes from vertical through the section *turbo-drilled.
1949 World Oil 1 July 88/1 Electric logs..were run after the *turbodrilled section was completed.
1955 World Petroleum XXVI. 84/3 The advantages of *turbodrilling stem from the fact that only the bit is actually involved in the rotating effort.
1977 Offshore Engineer May 20/1 ( Advt. ),Our turbodrilling and directional drilling engineers and equipment are at your service.
1981 ‘D. Rutherford’ Porcupine Basin iv. 66We're developing a new turbo-drill on a flexible string which can be reeled out on a drum.
1904 Electr. World &Engin. 19 Mar. 558Electrical and mechanical difficulties which arise in the design of *turbo-dynamos (dynamo-electric generators directly connected to steam-turbines).
1904 Ibid. 21 May 945Each of the..*turbo-electric units is of the vertical type.
1930 Engineering 18 Apr. 513/3 Turbo-electric propulsion must exhibit an overwhelming superiority in reliability and maintenance cost to overcome the disadvantages.
1974 Encycl. Brit. Macropædia XVII. 752/2On most nuclear submarines reduction gears are used between the turbines and the propeller shaft; however, a few incorporate turbo-electric drive.
1903 Electr. World &Engin. 25 July 147Two groups of *turbo-exciters, of 110 h.p. each.
1902 Sloane Stand. Electr. Dict. App. ,*Turbo-generator, a generator coupled or geared to a high-speed steam turbine, and on the same base with it.
1911 Evolution of Parsons Steam Turbine 30 This turbo-generator worked for many years.
1903 Sci. Amer. , Supp. 26 Sept. 23185Steam-turbines are..analogous to hydraulic turbines, and form part of the general class which the author will call ‘*turbo-machines’. [ Professor Rateau]
1969 Gloss. Terms VacuumTechnol. (B.S.I.) 17*Turbo-molecular pump, a molecular drag pump in which the rotor has inclined slots or blades moving between corresponding slots or blades in a stator.
1976 Physics Bull. Nov. 499/2The vacuum system is kept at 10–7 Torr by about 650 sputter ion pumps and 80 turbomolecular pumps.
1900 Westm. Gaz. 7 Sept. 6/1A torpedo-destroyer..driven through the water at the rate of forty-three miles an hour by the use of the *turbo-motor instead of reciprocating engines.
1903 *Turbo-pump . [ see turbo-ventilator below]
1947 Aircraft Engin. Aug. 254/2The turbo-pump assembly consists of a shaft carrying a single stage impulse steam turbine, on each side of which is a centrifugal pump.
1962 F. I. Ordway Basic Astronautics x. 411The turbopump proves to be the best means of pressurizing the propellants for large liquid rocket engines. The bipropellant turbopump consists of two centrifugal pumps and a gas turbine that supplies the driving power for the pumps.
1979 Nature 11 Jan. 84/1 A fire in the high pressure turbo-pump that feeds oxygen into the combustion chamber caused the engine to explode.
1948 Aviation Week 23 Feb. 36/2 *Turboramjet—A conventional turbojet engine with provision for reheating the gas between the turbine discharge and the exhaust nozzle.
1971 P. J. McMahon Aircraft Propulsion iii. 119At the moment the most promising fields of use for the turboramjet would seem to be those in air-breathing boosters for the launching of space vehicles.
1958 P. H. Wilkinson Aircraft Engines of World 1958/59 31Bristol-Siddeley Engines Ltd{ddd}is specializing in advanced turbojets, turboprops, *turboshafts, . [ etc.]
1967 Jane's Surface Skimmer Systems 1967–68 130/2 The GE LM1500 turboshaft engine is the result of a company investment in a programme to adapt the J79 jet engine to a free power turbine for commercial use.
1977 I. M. Campbell Energy & Atmosphere vi. 127The gas turbine engine used in aircraft under the names of turbojet, turboprop or turbofan, or in industrial or marine settings as a turboshaft engine.
1944 P. H. Wilkinson Aircraft Engines of World 1944 34The Boeing Flying Fortress B-17 (powered with a *turbo-supercharged engine).
1978 Financial Times 20 Dec. 21/5 At the moment, Mercedes is unique in marketing a turbo-supercharged diesel car.
1938 A. Swan Handbk. Aeronaut. (ed. 3) II. iv. 206The inherent advantages of the *turbo supercharger are mainly centred around the fact that it possesses remarkable flexibility of speed control.
1971 P. J. McMahon Aircraft Propulsion xi. 319From the turbo-supercharger, it is a logical step to develop the fully compound engine.
1979 Financial Rev. 14 June 29/1*Turbosupercharging is very much in as far as motoring is concerned these days.
1966 Time 27 May 52/3 Canadian National Railways..has now ordered five of the *turbotrains developed by the U.S. 's United Aircraft Corp... These light-weight, low-slung, turbojet-powered whiz-bangs should be able to clip nearly an hour off the present five-hour Montreal–Toronto run.
1978 Times 9 June 1/8 The turbo-train between Strasbourg and Lyons.
1903 Electr. World &Engin. 4 July 17Prof. Rateau has installed *turbo-ventilators giving a pressure of half an atmosphere, and turbo-pumps with a lift of several hundred metres.
turbo-
word-forming element, abstracted c.1900 from turbine; influenced by Latin turbo "spinning top." E.g. turbocharger (1934), aeronautic turboprop (1945, with second element short for propeller); turbojet (1945).
ORIGIN: from turb(ine -o-
☞ turbo
turbo-
combining form
Etymology: turbine
1. : coupled directly to a driving turbine
< turboalternator >
< turboblower >
< turbocompressor >
< turbodynamo >
< turboexciter >
< turbofan >
< turbogenerator >
< turbopump >
2. : consisting of or incorporating a turbine
< turbomachine >
< turbomotor >
< turboventilator >
1.
< turboalternator >
< turboblower >
< turbocompressor >
< turbodynamo >
< turboexciter >
< turbofan >
< turbogenerator >
< turbopump >
2.
< turbomachine >
< turbomotor >
< turboventilator >
turbo-
Prefix
- Turbine-related
- Accelerated, more robust, souped-up
Etymology
From turbine, from Latin turbo (“spinning top”).
Derived terms
Category:English words prefixed with turbo-