"impeller" meaning in English

See impeller in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-impeller.wav [US] Forms: impellers [plural]
Rhymes: -ɛlə(ɹ) Etymology: From impel + er. Etymology templates: {{ety|en|:af|impel|er<id:agent noun>|text=+|tree=1}} From impel + er. Head templates: {{en-noun}} impeller (plural impellers)
  1. Something which or someone who impels.
    Sense id: en-impeller-en-noun-en:any_person_or_device_that_impels
  2. Something which or someone who impels.
    A rotating component of a device that accelerates fluid, increasing its pressure or flowrate.
    Coordinate_terms: turbine
    Sense id: en-impeller-en-noun-en:any_person_or_device_that_impels1 Categories (other): English terms with collocations
  3. Something which or someone who impels.
    A rotating component of a device that accelerates fluid, increasing its pressure or flowrate.
    Especially, such a component that drives the fluid radially (outward from a center of rotation) rather than axially. (Impellers are found in devices such as pumps, water jets, washing machines, and agitated tanks.)
    Coordinate_terms: turbine, propeller Translations (component): juoksupyörä (Finnish), siipipyörä (Finnish), siivikko (Finnish), wirnik [masculine] (Polish)
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: expel, expeller, impel Translations (something which or someone who impels): yllyttäjä (Finnish)
Disambiguation of 'something which or someone who impels': 33 33 33

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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