Turbo (disambiguation)

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Turbo is a common contraction for turbocharger, an internal-combustion engine component. The word turbo is also often associated with anything quick, for example someone might say that a fast horse is a "turbo-horse" or a "turbo-model". Turbo is a latin word for whirling motion, whirlwind, hurricane, tornado, that which spins.


Turbo may also refer to:

  • Turbo button, a control on computer equipment that causes it to function faster
  • Turbo coding, a form of error-correction coding, usually used in telecommunications
  • Turbo Pascal, an Integrated Development Environment for the Pascal programming language
  • TurboGrafx 16, a video game console by NEC Corporation
  • Turbo (genus), a genus of marine gastropods
  • Turbo (brand), a brand of (waterpolo) swimming equipment
  • Turbo, the Guardian gobot who can change into a red sports car.

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