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turbo-electric

turbo-electric is the alternative form of turboelectric.

Meaning of turboelectric

Adjective

turboelectric (not comparable)

  1. That uses electric generators to convert the mechanical energy of a turbine into electric energy and electric motors to convert it back into mechanical energy to power the driveshafts.

Questions about turbo-electric

What is turbo-electric the alternative form of?
Turbo-electric is the alternative form of turboelectric.

Words near turbo-electric in the dictionary

  1. turbo trainers
  2. turbo yeast
  3. turbo yeasts
  4. turbo-
  5. turbo-capitalism
  6. turbo-electric
  7. turbo-folk
  8. turbo-generator
  9. turbo-generators
  10. turbo-ramjet
  11. turbo-ramjets

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Adapted from Wiktionary: turbo-electric (page history and authors); turboelectric (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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