"wind turbine" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: wind turbines [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} wind turbine (plural wind turbines)
  1. A device for converting wind power into electricity. Categories (topical): Machines Synonyms: wind generator Derived forms: floating wind turbine Related terms: wind farm, windmill Translations (device): հողմաշարժիչ (hoġmašaržičʻ) (Armenian), ветрагенератар (vjetrahjenjeratar) [masculine] (Belarusian), вятрак (vjatrak) [masculine] (Belarusian), 風力發電機 (Chinese Mandarin), 风力发电机 (fēnglì fādiànjī) (Chinese Mandarin), vindmølle [common-gender] (Danish), windturbine [feminine] (Dutch), ventoturbino (Esperanto), tuulegeneraator (Estonian), tuuliturbiini (Finnish), éolienne [feminine] (French), 𞤧𞤫𞤯𞤢 𞤸𞤫𞤲𞤣𞤵 [Adlam] (Fula), seɗa hendu [Latin] (Fula), aeroxerador [masculine] (Galician), muíño de vento [masculine] (Galician), muíño eólico [masculine] (Galician), ქარის ტურბინა (karis ṭurbina) (Georgian), Windkraftanlage [feminine] (German), ανεμογεννήτρια (anemogennítria) (Greek), טורבינת רוח (Hebrew), szélturbina (Hungarian), vindmylla [feminine] (Icelandic), ventoturbino (Ido), tuirbín gaoithe [masculine] (Irish), ventoturbino [masculine] (Italian), 風力タービン (fūryoku tābin) (Japanese), vēja turbīnu (Latvian), ветротурбина (vetroturbina) [feminine] (Macedonian), pūrere kapohau (Maori), béésh náábałí atsiniltłʼish ííłʼínígíí (Navajo), vindmølle [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), vindmølle [feminine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), turbina wiatrowa [feminine] (Polish), aerogerador [masculine] (Portuguese), turbina eólica [feminine] (Portuguese), centrală electroeoliană [feminine] (Romanian), turbină eoliană [feminine] (Romanian), ветрогенера́тор (vetrogenerátor) [masculine] (Russian), crann-gaoithe [masculine] (Scottish Gaelic), aerogenerador [masculine] (Spanish), molino eólico [masculine] (Spanish), molino de viento [masculine] (Spanish), vindkraftverk (Swedish), vindturbin (Swedish), rüzgâr türbini (Turkish), вітрогенератор (vitrohenerator) [masculine] (Ukrainian), olyinne (Walloon), tyrbin gwynt [masculine] (Welsh)
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Inflected forms

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      "word": "风力发电机"
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      "sense": "device",
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      "sense": "device",
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      "sense": "device",
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      "sense": "device",
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      "word": "molino de viento"
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      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "device",
      "word": "vindkraftverk"
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    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "device",
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    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "device",
      "word": "rüzgâr türbini"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "vitrohenerator",
      "sense": "device",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "вітрогенератор"
    },
    {
      "code": "wa",
      "lang": "Walloon",
      "sense": "device",
      "word": "olyinne"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "device",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "tyrbin gwynt"
    }
  ],
  "word": "wind turbine"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-05 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

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