turbine: [19] Latin turbō denoted ‘whirl’, ‘whirling thing’, or ‘whirlwind’, and also ‘spinning-top’ (it was related to turba ‘disturbance, crowd’, source of English disturb, trouble, etc). From it around 1824 was coined French turbine, applied originally to a revolving wheel on an axis, driven by water-pressure. It was borrowed into English in the early 1840s. => disturb, trouble
turbine (n.)
1838, from French turbine (19c.), from Latin turbinem (nominative turbo) "spinning top, eddy, whirlwind, that which whirls," related to turba "turmoil, crowd" (see turbid). Originally applied to a wheel spinning on a vertical axis driven by falling water. Turbo in reference to gas turbine engines is attested from 1904.
例文
1. Damage to the turbine slowed the work down.
タービンの損傷は、作業効率を低下させる。
2.The spinning turbine creates a vacuum.
回転するタービンが真空領域を形成している。
3.The work consisted of throwing up embankments and installing water turbine pumps.
この作業には、堤防の迅速な建設とタービンポンプの取り付けが含まれています。
4.The gas turbine feeds on the fuel it pumps.
このガスタービンは、吸い込まれた燃料をエネルギー源とする。
5.A disadvantage of the turbine is that it is not reversible.