wind turbine

wind turbine

English

Wind turbines in the North Sea off the coast of Belgium.

Noun

wind turbine (plural wind turbines)

1. A device for converting wind power into electricity.

Synonyms

• wind generator

Translations

device

Armenian: հողմաշարժիչ (hy) (hołmašaržičʿ) Belarusian: ветрагенератар m (vjetrahjenjeratar), вятрак m (vjatrak) Chinese: Mandarin: 風力發電機／风力发电机 (fēnglì fādiànjī) Danish: vindmølle (da) c Dutch: windturbine (nl) f Esperanto: ventoturbino Estonian: tuulegeneraator Finnish: tuuliturbiini (fi) French: éolienne (fr) f Fula: Adlam: 𞤧𞤫𞤯𞤢 𞤸𞤫𞤲𞤣𞤵‎ Latin: seɗa hendu Galician: aeroxerador m, muíño de vento m, muíño eólico m German: Windkraftanlage (de) f Greek: ανεμογεννήτρια (el) (anemogennítria) Hebrew: טורבינת רוח‎ (he) Hungarian: szélturbina Icelandic: vindmylla (is) f Ido: ventoturbino Irish: tuirbín gaoithe m Italian: ventoturbino m Japanese: 風力タービン (fūryoku tābin) Latvian: vēja turbīnu Macedonian: ветротурбина f (vetroturbina) Maori: pūrere kapohau Navajo: béésh náábałí atsiniltłʼish ííłʼínígíí Norwegian: Bokmål: vindmølle (no) m or f Nynorsk: vindmølle f Polish: turbina wiatrowa f Portuguese: aerogerador m, turbina eólica f Romanian: centrală electroeoliană f, turbină eoliană f Russian: ветрогенера́тор (ru) m (vetrogenerátor) Scottish Gaelic: crann-gaoithe m Spanish: aerogenerador m, molino eólico m, molino de viento m Swedish: vindkraftverk (sv), vindturbin (sv) Turkish: rüzgâr türbini Ukrainian: вітрогенератор m (vitrohenerator) Walloon: olyinne Welsh: tyrbin gwynt m

See also

• wind farm
• windmill

Further reading

• wind turbine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia