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turboprop engine
- Definição1
- A turbine engine which drives one or several propellers through a reduction gearing arrangement.
- Fonte1
- TERMIUM PLUS. The Government of Canada’s terminology and linguistic data bank. Retrieved July 13, 2020 from http://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/.
- Definição2
- A form of gas turbine engine that uses one or more stages of turbines to drive a set of reduction gears, which in turn drives a propeller. Most of the heat energy in the exhaust gases is converted into torque, rather than into a stream of high-velocity exhaust gases, as is done in a turbojet engine.
- Fonte2
- CRANE, Dale (ed.). Dictionary of aeronautical terms. 4th ed. Newcastle: ASA, 2006.
- Fonte3
- CROCKER, David. Dictionary of aviation. 2nd ed. London: A&C, 2005.
- Contexto
- Engine torque is used to indicate the power that is developed by a turboprop engine and the indicator is known as a torquemeter.
- Related Term
- turboprop airplane
- Spanish
- turbohélice