Curtis stage

noun

Cur·​tis stage

ˈkərtə̇s-

: a stage in the high-pressure section of a turbine consisting of two rows of impulse blades with intermediate reversing buckets

Word History

Etymology

after Charles Gordon Curtis †1953 American inventor

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