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Turboprop

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A type of gas turbine aircraft engine that drives and obtains essentially all thrust from an external (typically unducted) propeller.
  2. 2
    an airplane with an external propeller that is driven by a turbojet engine wordnet
  3. 3
    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 […]"

Etymology

From turbo- + prop.

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