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turboprops

turboprops is the plural of turboprop.

Meaning of turboprop

Noun

turboprop (plural turboprops)

  1. A type of gas turbine aircraft engine that drives and obtains essentially all thrust from an external (typically unducted) propeller.
  2. An aircraft that uses a turboprop engine.
    • A Horizon Air worker took off Friday night in one of the airline’s Q400 turboprops at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport […]2018 August 10, Paige Cornwell, Agueda Pacheco-Flores, “Airplane taken from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport has crashed”, in The Seattle Times, archived from the original on 30 Aug 2018

Questions about turboprops

What is turboprops the plural of?
Turboprops is the plural of turboprop.

Words near turboprops in the dictionary

  1. turbopause
  2. turbopauses
  3. turbopetrol
  4. turboprop
  5. turbopropped
  6. turboprops
  7. turbopump
  8. turbopumps
  9. turboramjet
  10. turboramjets
  11. turborocket

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