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Pelton wheel

Pelton wheel noun: a form of impulse turbine or water wheel, extracting energy from the impulse of moving water.

Noun

Pelton wheel (plural Pelton wheels)

  1. A form of impulse turbine or water wheel, extracting energy from the impulse of moving water

Pelton wheel meaning in Tamil

Pelton wheel in Tamil

பெற்றன்சில்லு, பெல்டன் சக்கரம், பெல்டன்ஆழி, பெல்ட்டன் நார் உருளை

Forms of Pelton wheel

pluralPelton wheels

Origin of Pelton wheel

Invented by Lester Allan Pelton in the 1870s.

Questions about Pelton wheel

What does Pelton wheel mean?
Pelton wheel means a form of impulse turbine or water wheel, extracting energy from the impulse of moving water.
What is Pelton wheel in Tamil?
Pelton wheel in Tamil is பெற்றன்சில்லு, பெல்டன் சக்கரம், பெல்டன்ஆழி. See Pelton wheel meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is Pelton wheel?
Pelton wheel is a noun.
What is the plural of Pelton wheel?
The plural of Pelton wheel is Pelton wheels.

Words near Pelton wheel in the dictionary

  1. peltogasters
  2. peltogastrid
  3. peltogastrids
  4. peltoid
  5. Pelton
  6. Pelton wheel
  7. Pelton wheels
  8. Peltons
  9. peltoperlid
  10. peltoperlids
  11. peltops

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Pelton wheel (page history and authors); pelton wheel (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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