Glossary T
Deutsch: Turbine / Español: Turbina / Português: Turbina / Français: Turbine / Italiano: Turbina
A turbine is a rotary mechanical device that extracts energy from a fluid flow and converts it into useful work. A turbine is a turbomachine with at least one moving part called a rotor assembly, which is a shaft or drum with blades attached. Moving fluid acts on the blades so that they move and impart rotational energy to the rotor. Early turbine examples are windmills and waterwheels.
Deutsch: Technologie / Español: Tecnología / Português: Tecnologia / Français: Technologie / Italiano: Tecnologia /
In an industrial context, 'technology' generally refers to the application of scientific knowledge and engineering principles to the development of new products, processes, and systems used in manufacturing and other industries.
Deutsch: Teer / Español: Alquitrán / Português: Alcatrão / Français: Goudron / Italiano: Catrame
Tar is a substance obtained from a variety of organic materials through destructive distillation. Tar can be produced from coal, wood, petroleum, or peat. It is black, and a mixture of hydrocarbons and free carbon.
Deutsch: Straßenverkehr / Español: Tránsito vehicular -/ Português: Trânsito / Français: Circulation routière / Italiano: Traffico
Traffic on roads may consist of pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles, streetcars and other conveyances, either singly or together, while using the public way for purposes of travel. Traffic laws are the laws which govern traffic and regulate vehicles, while rules of the road are both the laws and the informal rules that may have developed over time to facilitate the orderly and timely flow of traffic.
Organized traffic generally has well-established priorities, lanes, right-of-way, and traffic control at intersections.