wind turbine

noun

: a wind-driven turbine for generating electricity

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Much of that comes from sales of offshore and onshore wind turbines. — Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 2 July 2026 Along the road between Somerset and Ligonier, wind turbines and solar panels dot ridges and farmland. — Salena Zito, Washington Post, 1 July 2026 What would earth look like after a few hundred years of solar-panel arrays, wind turbines, carbon capture, stratospheric geoengineering? — Literary Hub, 18 June 2026 Today, its components connect wind turbines, data centers, stadium lighting and ship systems worldwide. — Alison Coleman, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for wind turbine

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1909, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of wind turbine was in 1909

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