water wheel

See also: waterwheel

English

Alternative forms

waterwheel
water-wheel

Noun

water wheel (plural water wheels)

A wheel, propelled by running or falling water, used to power machinery.
- 2013 July-August, Lee S. Langston, “The Adaptable Gas Turbine”, in American Scientist:
  Turbines have been around for a long time—windmills and water wheels are early examples. The name comes from the Latin turbo, meaning vortex, and thus the defining property of a turbine is that a fluid or gas turns the blades of a rotor, which is attached to a shaft that can perform useful work.
A wheel with buckets used to raise water.

Synonyms

(wheel with buckets): noria

Translations

wheel propelled by water

Chinese:
Mandarin: 水車 (zh), 水车 (zh) (shuǐchē), 水輪 (zh), 水轮 (zh) (shuǐlún)
Finnish: vesipyörä (fi)
French: roue à aubes (fr) f
Galician: rodicio m
German: Wasserrad (de) n

Hunsrik: Wasserraat n
Indonesian: kincir air (id)
Italian: bindolo (it) m
Japanese: 水車 (ja) (すいしゃ, suisha)
Russian: водяно́е колесо́ n (vodjanóje kolesó)
Tagalog: lagumba

wheel to raise water

Chinese:
Mandarin: 水輪 (zh), 水轮 (zh) (shuǐlún)

Finnish: vesipyörä (fi)
Indonesian: kincir air (id)

See also

turbine

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