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ral chamber, inward from an external casing, or from above downward, etc.; -- also called turbine wheel.

A genus of large marine gastropods having a thick heavy shell with conspicuous folds on the columella.

the large spiral shell of several species of sea conch much used in making bangles, esp. Turbinella pyrum. Called also chank chell.

h the axis is vertical, the buckets or floats revolving in a horizontal plane, as in most turbines.

A large spiral East Indian marine shell (Turbinella rapha); -- so called because used by native priests to hold the oil for anointing.

A form of impulse turbine or water wheel, consisting of a row of double cup-shaped buckets arranged round the rim of a wheel and actuated by one or more jets of water playing into the cups at high velocity.

instead of being derived from a reciprocating motion, as in the ordinary engine; a steam turbine; -- called also rotatory engine. -- Rotary pump, a pump in which the fluid is impelled by rotating devices which take the place of reciprocating buckets or pistons. -- Rotary shears, shears, as for cloth, metal, etc., in…

A chank shell (Turbinella pyrum); also, a shell bracelet or necklace made in India from the chank shell.

tions as the typical form and structure of the chemical atom. -- Vortex wheel, a kind of turbine.

wheel when at an intermediate point; other forms are called reaction wheel, vortex wheel, turbine wheel, etc.