"wind engine" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: wind engines [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} wind engine (plural wind engines)
  1. a wind-driven machine: wind turbine, windmill, wind generator Synonyms: wind turbine, wind-engine [archaic] Translations (wind-driven machine): հողմաշարժիչ (hoġmašaržičʿ) (Armenian), ανεμοκινητήρας (anemokinitíras) [masculine] (Greek), ветродви́гатель (vetrodvígatelʹ) [masculine] (Russian), вітродвигу́н (vitrodvyhún) [masculine] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-wind_engine-en-noun-IkFNlL-m Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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