different between turbo vs rpm

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?t?bo?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?t??b??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)b??

Etymology 1

From turbine.

Noun

turbo (countable and uncountable, plural turbos)

1. (informal) a turbine
2. Clipping of turbocharger.
3. Clipping of turbojet.
4. Clipping of Turbomolecular pump.

Derived terms

• turbo mode

Etymology 2

From turbocharged (“increased power”). From the action of a turbocharger, which increases the speed of an automobile through the increase in power of an engine.

Noun

turbo (plural turbos)

1. (video games) Autofire. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Adjective

turbo (not comparable)

1. (said of a poker tournament) With rapidly-increasing blind levels.

   This is a turbo tournament: the blinds increase every 5 minutes! Level 1 = 150/300; level 2 = 200/400; etc.

2. (computing, video games) Causing or relating to increased speed.

   a turbo button on a controller; a PC equipped with a turbo mode

Verb

turbo (third-person singular simple present turbos, present participle turboing, simple past and past participle turboed)

1. (video games) To autofire.

Derived terms

• turbo mode

Etymology 3

From the New Latin name of the genus Turbo.

Noun

turbo (plural turbos)

1. (malacology) A turban shell.

Czech

Etymology

Latin turbo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?turbo]

Noun

turbo n

1. turbo

Related terms

Further reading

• turbo in Kartotéka Novo?eského lexikálního archivu
• turbo in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz

Esperanto

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “from Latin "tornado"?”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?turbo/
• Hyphenation: tur?bo
• Rhymes: -urbo

Noun

turbo (accusative singular turbon, plural turboj, accusative plural turbojn)

1. spinning top
   • 1916, L'Amerika Esperantisto, page 53.

   • 1923, British Esperantist, page 9.

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?turbo/, [?t?urbo?]
• Rhymes: -urbo
• Syllabification: tur?bo

Noun

turbo

1. turbo

Declension

Derived terms

• turboahdettu
• turboahdin
• turbogeneraattori
• turbomoottori

Italian

Verb

turbo

1. first-person singular present indicative of turbare

Anagrams

• Bruto, bruto

Latin

Etymology

From turba.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?tur.bo?/, [?t??rbo?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?tur.bo/, [?t?urb?]

Noun

turb? m (genitive turbinis); third declension

2. tornado, whirlwind
3. spinning top, wheel
4. spinning motion

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Descendants

Verb

turb? (present infinitive turb?re, perfect active turb?v?, supine turb?tum); first conjugation

2. I disturb, unsettle, agitate
3. I upset

Conjugation

Old forms are:

• 3rd person singular indicative future perfect passive: turbassitur (= turb?tum erit)

Derived terms

Descendants

References

• turbo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• turbo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• turbo in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• turbo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
• turbo in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• turbo in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• turbo in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Portuguese

Verb

turbo

1. first-person singular (eu) present indicative of turbar

Spanish

Verb

turbo

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of turbar.

English

Noun

rpm (plural rpms or rpm's)

1. Alternative letter-case form of RPM

Proper noun

rpm

1. Alternative letter-case form of RPM

Anagrams

• MPR, MRP, PMR, PRM, RMP