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Turboprop

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. A turbojet engine used to drive an external propeller.

n. An aircraft in which a turboprop is used. Also called propjet.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. A type of gas turbine aircraft engine that drives and obtains essentially all thrust from an external (typically unducted) propeller.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. an airplane with an external propeller that is driven by a turbojet engine

Word Usage

"Mr. Pineau and the four other men on the twin turboprop completed their mission and refueled for a new assignment at an airfield in ChuLai on the coast of South Vietnam."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

propeller plane

Cross Reference

gas turbine engine

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

propjet

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

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