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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025

Pel′ton wheel′

a high-pressure impulse water turbine in which one or more free jets of water are directed against the buckets of the rotor.

named after Latin. A. Pelton (died 1908), U.south, southern. engineer, its inventor 1880–85

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