คำว่า ' turbine ' ( N )
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คำนิยามในภาษาอังกฤษ (definition) :
[n.] A water wheel, commonly horizontal, variously constructed, but usually having a series of curved floats or buckets, against which the water acts by its impulse or reaction in flowing either outward from a central chamber, inward from an external casing, or from above downward, etc.; -- also called turbine wheel.