Turbo
From Academic Kids
Turbo is an acronym for TURbine BOosted. This means that it comprises a turbine to extract energy from an internal combustion engine and using this energy to boost the air input to the engine, thus increasing the volumetric efficiency i.e. giving more power.
Other uses of the word turbo:
- A turbocharger is an internal-combustion engine component.
- Turbo is the name of an album by Judas Priest.
- Turbo coding is a form of error-correction coding, usually used in telecommunication.
- The TurboGrafx 16 was NEC's first North American video game console.
- Turbo, Colombia, a port city in Colombia.
- Turbo is a Korean band.
- Turbo is a Polish band.
- The Turbo was an early high-speed train in Canada in the 1960s.
- Turbo was one of the most popular visible figures part of the break-dancing craze of the 1980s as it was presented to the public via a series of movies with break-dancing as their theme, including Breakin' and Beat Street. Turbo was known for holding the record for consecutive back-spins.
