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A turbine is a rotary engine that extracts energy from a fluid flow. The simplest turbines have one moving part, a rotor-blade assembly. Moving fluid acts on the blades to spin them and impart energy to the rotor. Early turbine examples are windmills and waterwheels.
See also Steam turbines and Category:Fossil fuel power stations
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Category:Turbines” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.