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turbolift

noun

turbolift is a noun meaning “An elevator on a spacecraft” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled T-U-R-B-O-L-I-F-T, and it appears about once in every 33 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of turbolift is turbolifts.

What does turbolift mean?

noun

  1. 1

    An elevator on a spacecraft.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of turbolift

  • turbolifts plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is turbolift?

Turbolift appears about once in every 33 million words in written English, the 176,009th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does turbolift come from?

From turbo- + lift.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).