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bleed air

bleed air noun: compressed air taken from the compressor stage of a gas turbine upstream of its fuel-burning sections.

Noun

bleed air (uncountable)

  1. Compressed air taken from the compressor stage of a gas turbine upstream of its fuel-burning sections.

Questions about bleed air

What does bleed air mean?
Bleed air means compressed air taken from the compressor stage of a gas turbine upstream of its fuel-burning sections.
What part of speech is bleed air?
Bleed air is a noun.

Words near bleed air in the dictionary

  1. Bledsoe County
  2. blee
  3. Bleecker
  4. Bleeckers
  5. bleed
  6. bleed air
  7. bleed dry
  8. bleed edge
  9. bleed edges
  10. bleed for
  11. bleed hole

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