TURBOGENERATOR
Tur`bo*gen"er*a`tor, n. [See Turbine, and Generator.]
Defn: An electric generator or dynamo which is combined on one frame with a turbomotor, by which it is driven.
TURBOT Tur"bot, n. Etym: [F.; — probably so named from its shape, and from L. turbo a top, a whirl.] (Zoöl.) (a) A large European flounder (Rhombus maximus) highly esteemed as a food fish. It often weighs from thirty to forty pounds. Its color on the upper side is brownish with small roundish tubercles scattered over the surface. The lower, or blind, side is white. Called also bannock fluke. (b) Any one of numerous species of flounders more or less related to the true turbots, as the American plaice, or summer flounder (see Flounder), the halibut, and the diamond flounder (Hypsopsetta guttulata) of California. (c) The filefish; — so called in Bermuda. (d) The trigger fish. Spotted turbot. See Windowpane.
TURBULENCE
Tur"bu*lence, n. Etym: [L. turbulentia: cf. F. turbulebce.]
Defn: The quality or state of being turbulent; a disturbed state; tumult; disorder; agitation. Shak. The years of . . . warfare and turbulence which ensued. Southey.
Syn. — Agitation; commotion; tumult; tumultuousness; termagance; unruliness; insubordination; rioting.
TURBULENCY
Tur"bu*len*cy, n.
Defn: Turbulence.
What a tale of terror now its turbulency tells! Poe.
TURBULENT Tur"bu*lent, a. Etym: [L. turbulentus, fr. turba disorder, tumult: cf. F. turbulent. See Turbid.]
1. Disturbed; agitated; tumultuous; roused to violent commotion; as,
the turbulent ocean.
Calm region once, And full of peace, now tossed and turbulent.
Milton.