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.
As a name or title:
- Turbo, Colombia, a port city in Colombia
- Marcius Turbo, a Roman General in the 2nd century
- Turbo (group), the Korean dance group
- Turbo (Polish band), a Polish heavy metal band
- Turbo (Czech band), a veteran Czech rock band
- Turbo (train), an early high-speed train in Canada in the 1960s
- Turbo (comics), a superheroine in the Marvel Comics universe
- Power Rangers: Turbo, television series.
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- Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie, film.
- Turbo, an arcade game released by Sega in 1982
- Turbo, was a mascot of the NBA team Houston Rockets
- Turbo, a character in the 1980s break-dancing films Breakin' and Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo
- Turbo, the break-dancer who taught Michael Jackson the Moonwalk
- Turbo (Judas Priest album), an album by Judas Priest