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One of the workshop participants had shown me a single 8 X 10 photograph of a power plant where he actually was the general manager of this power cooperative. It was quite magical to me.
John Sexton

Meaning of "power plant" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF POWER PLANT

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF POWER PLANT

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Power plant is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES POWER PLANT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

power plant

Power station

A power station is an industrial facility for the generation of electric power. At the center of nearly all power stations is a generator, a rotating machine that converts mechanical power into electrical power by creating relative motion between a magnetic field and a conductor. The energy source harnessed to turn the generator varies widely. It depends chiefly on which fuels are easily available, cheap enough and on the types of technology that the power company has access to. Most power stations in the world burn fossil fuels such as coal, oil, and natural gas to generate electricity, and some use nuclear power, but there is an increasing use of cleaner renewable sources such as solar, wind, wave and hydroelectric.

Definition of power plant in the English dictionary

The definition of power plant in the dictionary is the complex, including machinery, associated equipment, and the structure housing it, that is used in the generation of power, esp electrical power. Other definition of power plant is the equipment supplying power to a particular machine or for a particular operation or process.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE POWER PLANT

power industry
power kite
power kiting
power line
power list
power lunch
power nap
power of appointment
power of attorney
power pack
power play
power point
power politics
power series
power set
power shower
power station
power steering
power structure
power struggle

WORDS THAT END LIKE POWER PLANT

air plant
assembly plant
bottling plant
chemical plant
eggplant
explant
face-plant
gas plant
hair transplant
heating plant
house plant
implant
kidney transplant
manufacturing plant
nuclear plant
nuclear power plant
plant
pot plant
processing plant
repellant
transplant

Synonyms and antonyms of power plant in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «power plant» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF POWER PLANT

Find out the translation of power plant to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of power plant from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «power plant» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

电厂
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

planta de energía
570 millions of speakers

English

power plant
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

बिजली संयंत्र
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

محطة توليد الكهرباء
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

электростанции
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

usina
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বিদ্যুৎ কেন্দ্র
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

centrale
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Jana kuasa
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Triebwerk
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

発電所
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

발전소
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Daya pabrik
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nhà máy điện
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மின் ஆலை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

वीज प्रकल्प
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

enerji santrali
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

centrale elettrica
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

elektrownia
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

електростанції
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

centrală electrică
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μονάδα παραγωγής ενέργειας
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

kragstasie
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

kraftverk
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

kraftverk
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of power plant

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «POWER PLANT»

The term «power plant» is very widely used and occupies the 21.950 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «POWER PLANT» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about power plant

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10 QUOTES WITH «POWER PLANT»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word power plant.
1
John Abizaid
You don't build a new power plant in the United States overnight. It takes years to build.
2
Joe Barton
No one in the United States has become seriously ill or has died because of any kind of accident at a civilian nuclear power plant.
3
Majora Carter
As a black person in America, I am twice as likely as a white person to live in an area where air pollution poses the greatest risk to my health. I am five times more likely to live within walking distance of a power plant or chemical facility - which I do.
4
Kim Dae Jung
And also, we are providing, you know, a nuclear power plant in the north, two light water systems, so some 4 or 5 billion dollars we are providing to meet with North Korean requests on the condition North Korea will not produce a nuclear weapon.
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Vinod Khosla
You know, one of the great things about most renewable technologies - not every technology, but many of them - is the jobs have to be local. When you're talking about a power plant and power generation using solar thermal technology, the jobs will be where the plant is.
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Yoshihiko Noda
I hope to attend it as Japan needs to tell the world the lessons, knowledge and reflections learned from the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant.
7
William Scranton
When I started walking and I looked down and I saw on the floor this water, which looked like, you know, water in your basement except it happened to be in the auxiliary building of a nuclear power plant.
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William Scranton
None of us knew what this power plant looked like. We had no schematic drawing.
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John Sexton
The first day at the power plant I found myself photographing some steam vents on the roof of the structure. And I remember consciously thinking that they were just like trees but they were metal.
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John Sexton
One of the workshop participants had shown me a single 8 X 10 photograph of a power plant where he actually was the general manager of this power cooperative. It was quite magical to me.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «POWER PLANT»

Discover the use of power plant in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to power plant and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Thermal Power Plant Simulation and Control
An exploration of how advances in computing technology and research can be combined to extend the capabilities and economics of modern power plants.
Damian Flynn, 2003
2
Power-plant Control and Instrumentation: The Control of ...
Intended as a practical guide to the design, installation, operation and maintenance of the systems used for measuring and controlling boilers and heat-recovery steam-generators used in land and marine power plants and in process industries ...
David Lindsley, 2000
3
Power Plant Water Chemistry: A Practical Guide
This practical handbook for utility personnel and independent power producers provides detailed discussion and examples of solutions to water chemistry problems in power plant boilers.
Brad Buecker, 1997
4
Power plant system design
An introduction to the overall design of power plant systems, focusing on system rather than component design.
Kam W. Li, A. Paul Priddy, 1985
5
Power Plant Construction Management: A Survival Guide
This book explains the power of economics behind the industry and how to manage the finances of work activities.
Peter G. Hessler, 2005
6
Power Plant Engineering
This volume an up-to-date reference for all aspects of power plant engineering.
Lawrence F. Drbal, Pat Boston, Kayla Westra, 1996
7
Thermal Power Plant Performance Analysis
Taking in view that the power plant performance can be evaluated not only based on thermodynamic related indexes, such as heat-rate, Thermal Power Plant Performance Analysis focuses on the presentation of reliability-based tools used to ...
Gilberto Francisco Martha de Souza, 2012
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Power Plant Engineering
KEY FEATURES: * Each chapter is accomplished with solved problems. * Text has been supplemented with illustrated diagrams, tables, flow charts, and graphs wherever required, for clear understanding of students. * Summary, at the end of each ...
C. Elanchezhian, L. Saravanakumar, B. Vijaya Ramnath, 2007
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Power Plant Equipment Operation and Maintenance Guide
THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO SELECTING, OPERATING, AND MAINTAINING POWER PLANT EQUIPMENT Power Plant Equipment Operation and Maintenance Guide provides detailed coverage of different types of power plants such as modern co-generation, combined ...
Philip Kiameh, 2011
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Power Plant Design
This book examines power plants, from input of energy to output of rotating-shaft mechanical power, and it follows the well-established tradition of covering the mechanical engineer's area of responsibility in power plant design.
E. E. Khalil, 1990

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «POWER PLANT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term power plant is used in the context of the following news items.
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Protesters shun power plant hearing | Bangkok Post: news
Protesters gathered at the third and final public hearing on a coal-fired power plant for Songkhla but refused to go inside without their banners. «Bangkok Post, Jul 15»
2
Iran builds $2.5 billion power plant in Iraq
Iran is building a natural gas combined cycle power plant in Iraq's Basra at a cost of $2.5 billion in the Persian country's biggest engineering ... «Press TV, Jul 15»
3
Bakreswar power plant of Kolkata operates without clearances
The bench has also wanted to know from the West Bengal Power Development Corporation Ltd (WBPDCL) why the power plant should not be ... «Times of India, Jul 15»
4
SunPower Acquires 1.5 Gigawatt US Solar Power Plant Pipeline
"The magnitude of this acquisition speaks to SunPower's financial strength as well as our expertise and leadership in global power plant ... «MarketWatch, Jul 15»
5
Sequoyah Nuclear Power Plant's Unit 1 trips again
For the second time in four days, the Unit 1 reactor at the Sequoyah Nuclear Power Plant has tripped due to a fluctuation on voltage output from ... «Chattanooga Times Free Press, Jul 15»
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Greenleaf Power Finalizes Acquisition of Plainfield Renewable …
SACRAMENTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Greenleaf Power, an owner and operator of green energy power plants and a portfolio company of ... «Business Wire, Jul 15»
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World's smallest biomass power plant using biomass gasification …
... biomass power plant planned for Bulgaria Karlovo power plant will turn syngas derived from straw and wood wastes into clean energy. «Renewable Energy Focus, Jul 15»
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Coal power plant case: Chief Justice LHC forms three-member full …
LAHORE (Dunya News) – Chief Justice Lahore High Court (LHC) Manzoor Ahmed Malik has formed a full bench for the hearing of the case ... «DunyaNews Pakistan, Jul 15»
9
NRC issues final environmental report on Byron Station Nuclear …
... has published its final report detailing the environmental impacts of renewing the operating licenses of the Byron Station nuclear power plant ... «PennEnergy, Jul 15»
10
New Angat power plant owners to spend P1.08B for dam rehab
Following the full privatization of its power plant component last year, the new owners will be spending P1.08 billion for the rehabilitation of the ... «Manila Bulletin, Jul 15»

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