Plain English Meaning
An engine that runs on a continuous flow of burning gas. It sucks in air, squeezes it, burns fuel in it, and uses the rush of hot gas to spin a wheel that keeps the engine running and produces thrust or shaft power.
Full Definition
An engine that produces power by drawing in air, compressing it, mixing it with fuel and igniting the mixture, then directing the resulting hot, expanding gases through a turbine wheel that extracts energy to drive the compressor and, depending on the design, a propeller, a fan, a rotor, or a jet exhaust nozzle.
Context Anchor
Pilots encounter turbine engines in jet, turboprop, , and , and in engine-, power-setting, fuel, and -limit discussions.