MEANING
A pump driven by a turbine, especially one delivering propellant in a rocket engine.
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- rocket turbopump
- turbopump assembly
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The turbopump fed propellant into the chamber.
A vibration damaged the turbopump assembly.
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Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Singular turbopump; plural turbopumps. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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