Word Meanings - TURBOGENERATOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An electric generator or dynamo which is combined on one frame with a turbomotor, by which it is driven.

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• DYNAMO
  A dynamo-electric machine.
• DYNAMOMETRY
  The art or process of measuring forces doing work.
• DYNAMOMETER
  An apparatus for measuring force or power; especially, muscular effort of men or animals, or the power developed by a motor, or that required to operate machinery. Note: It usually embodies a spring to be compressed or weight to be sustained by
• ELECTRICIAN
  An investigator of electricity; one versed in the science of electricity.
• DYNAMO-ELECTRIC
  Pertaining to the development of electricity, especially electrical currents, by power; producing electricity or electrical currents by mechanical power.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• COMBINATION
  The act or process of uniting by chemical affinity, by which substances unite with each other in definite proportions by weight to form distinct compounds. 4. pl. (more info) 1. The act or process of combining or uniting persons and things. Making
• COMBINE
  1. To unite or join; to link closely together; to bring into harmonious union; to cause or unite so as to form a homogeneous, as by chemical union. So fitly them in pairs thou hast combined. Milton. Friendship is the which really combines mankind.
• ELECTRIC
  A nonconductor of electricity, as amber, glass, resin, etc., employed to excite or accumulate electricity.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• COMBINED
  United closely; confederated; chemically united.
• FRAMEWORK
  1. The work of framing, or the completed work; the frame or constructional part of anything; as, the framework of society. A staunch and solid piece of framework. Milton. 2. Work done in, or by means of, a frame or loom.
• ELECTRICITY
  1. A power in nature, a manifestation of energy, exhibiting itself when in disturbed equilibrium or in activity by a circuit movement, the fact of direction in which involves polarity, or opposition of properties in opposite directions; also, by
• FRAMER
  One who frames; as, the framer of a building; the framers of the Constitution.
• DRIVEN
  of Drive. Also adj. Driven well, a well made by driving a tube into the earth to an aqueous stratum; -- called also drive well.
• DYNAMOGRAPH
  A dynamometer to which is attached a device for automatically registering muscular power.
• COMBINATE
  United; joined; betrothed.
• FRAME-UP
  A conspiracy or plot, esp. for a malicious or evil purpose, as to incriminate a person on false evidence.
• COMBING
  See CARDING (more info) 1. The act or process of using a comb or a number of combs; as, the combing of one's hair; the combing of wool. Note: The process of combing is used in straightening wool of long
• FRAME
  1. To shape; to arrange, as the organs of speech. Judg. xii. 2. To proceed; to go. The bauty of this sinful dame Made many princes thither frame. Shak.
• ANELECTRIC
  Not becoming electrified by friction; -- opposed to idioelectric. -- n.
• UNFRAME
  To take apart, or destroy the frame of. Dryden.
• PYROELECTRICITY
  Electricity developed by means of heat; the science which treats of electricity thus developed.
• SERIES DYNAMO
  A series-wound dynamo. A dynamo running in series with another or others.
• HEMADYNAMOMETER
  An instrument by which the pressure of the blood in the arteries, or veins, is measured by the height to which it will raise a column of mercury; -- called also a hæmomanometer.
• IDIOELECTRIC
  Electric by virtue of its own peculiar properties; capable of becoming electrified by friction; -- opposed to anelectric. -- n.
• THERMOELECTRIC COUPLE; THERMOELECTRIC PAIR
  A union of two conductors, as bars or wires of dissimilar metals joined at their extremities, for producing a thermoelectric current.
• REGENERATOR
  A device used in connection with hot-air engines, gas-burning furnaces, etc., in which the incoming air or gas is heated by being brought into contact with masses of iron, brick, etc., which have been previously heated by the outgoing, or escaping,
• DIDYNAMOUS
  Of or pertaining to the Didynamia; containing four stamens disposed in pairs of unequal length.
• PHOTO-ELECTRICITY
  Electricity produced by light.
• TURBOGENERATOR
  An electric generator or dynamo which is combined on one frame with a turbomotor, by which it is driven.
• HYDRO-ELECTRIC
  Pertaining to, employed in, or produced by, the evolution of electricity by means of a battery in which water or steam is used. Hydro-electric machine , an apparatus invented by Sir William Armstrong of England for generating electricity by the