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English
Etymology
From impel + -er.
Pronunciation
Noun
impeller (plural impellers)
- Something which or someone who impels.
- A rotating component of a device that accelerates fluid, increasing its pressure or flowrate.
- Coordinate term: turbine (extracts power rather than adding it)
- Hyponym: propeller
screw impeller
- Especially, such a component that drives the fluid radially (outward from a center of rotation) rather than axially. (Impellers are found in devices such as pumps, water jets, washing machines, and agitated tanks.)
- Coordinate term: propeller
- Holonym: torque converter
Translations
something which or someone who impels
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