turboprop
nounEtymology From turbo- + prop.
1
Aeronautics, Aerospace, Business, Engineering, Natural sciences, Physical sciences A type of gas turbine aircraft engine that drives and obtains essentially all thrust from an external (typically unducted) propeller.
2
Aeronautics, Aerospace, Aviation, Business, Engineering, Natural sciences, Physical sciences An aircraft that uses a turboprop engine.
- A Horizon Air worker took off Friday night in one of the airline’s Q400 turboprops at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport […]2018 August 10, Paige Cornwell, Agueda Pacheco-Flores, “Airplane taken from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport has crashed”, in The Seattle Times, archived from the original on 30 Aug 2018:
- Leaders at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport are preparing to gather Monday morning to discuss what policies could prevent insider security breaches similar to the Friday night heist of a turboprop plane that later crashed.2018 August 12, David Gutman, Mike Baker, “Sea-Tac officials, airlines to meet Monday to discuss security protocols after turboprop heist”, in The Seattle Times, archived from the original on 13 Aug 2018:
- Synonyms
- propjet
- Derived terms
- turbopropped
- Related terms
- gas turbine
- Coordinate terms
- turbofan, turbojet, turboshaft, propfan, fanjet, HBFJ