wind turbine

wind turbine (plural wind turbines)

1. A device for converting wind power into electricity.

   Synonym: (smaller) wind generator

   • 2019 December 24, Richard Luscombe, “‘I never understood wind’: Trump goes on bizarre tirade against wind turbines”, in The Guardian‎^[1], →ISSN:

     Now there is another subject in which Donald Trump’s expert knowledge surpasses that of everybody else: wind turbines, though he calls them windmills.

   • 2025 May 9, Ajit Niranjan, “Plan for windfarm in German ‘fairytale forest’ stokes green energy culture war”, in The Guardian‎^[2], →ISSN:

     “These wind turbines will help preserve the forest by generating electricity sustainably,” said Paschold. “If we keep spewing CO₂ and contaminating our atmosphere, there won’t be much of it left.”

• wind farm
• windmill

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