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The meaning of a sentence often depends on stress and intonation. The literal meaning of ' television ' is ' seeing from a distance '. It's sometimes very difficult to draw a clear distinction between the meanings of different words. Let's just say we had ' problems ', if you get my meaning.
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The name comes from the Latin turbo, meaning vortex, and thus the defining property of a turbine is that a fluid or gas turns the blades of a rotor, which is attached to a shaft that can perform useful work.
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