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impeller

impeller noun: something which or someone who impels.

Noun

impeller (plural impellers)

  1. Something which or someone who impels.
    1. A rotating component of a device that accelerates fluid, increasing its pressure or flowrate.
      • screw impeller
    2. 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.)
      • Holonym: torque converter

impeller meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Sanskrit

impeller in Tamil

உந்தித்தள்ளி, தள்ளருள், தள்ளி, தள்ளுருள், வாரி இறைப்பி, விசிறி

impeller in Urdu

آنکس

impeller in Sanskrit

impeller, vivifier
सवितृ savitṛ́
impeller
तरुतृ tarutṛ́

Forms of impeller

pluralimpellers

Origin of impeller

From impel + er.

Words that rhyme with impeller

31 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about impeller

What does impeller mean?
Impeller means something which or someone who impels.
What is impeller in Tamil?
Impeller in Tamil is உந்தித்தள்ளி, தள்ளருள், தள்ளி. See Impeller meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is impeller?
Impeller is a noun.
What is the plural of impeller?
The plural of impeller is impellers.

Words near impeller in the dictionary

  1. impelled
  2. impellence
  3. impellences
  4. impellent
  5. impellents
  6. impeller
  7. impellers
  8. impelleth
  9. impelling
  10. impellingness
  11. impellor

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Adapted from Wiktionary: impeller (page history and authors); impeller (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); impeller (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); तरुतृ (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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