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power plant

or power·plant

noun

a plant, including engines, dynamos, etc., and the building or buildings necessary for the generation of power, as electric or nuclear power.
the machinery for supplying power for a particular mechanical process or operation.
the engine, motor, or other power source along with related ignition, transmission, etc., components of a vehicle, aircraft, machine, etc.

power plant

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

First recorded in 1885–90

His first feature film, Jellyfish Eyes, debuted last year and was set in a town near a threatening nuclear power plant.

Now that the power plant has been hit, they have no water and no electricity.

Read More: Israel Shrinks Gaza by 40 Percent The power plant is a loss with particularly far-reaching consequences.

On October 26 they were assigned to attack a power plant supplying the North Vietnamese capital, Hanoi.

Last September, Harvest Power opened the largest such food-to-power plant in North America, in Richmond, British Columbia.

The parts, the new power plant and a few other odds and ends were chuted into a neat pile on the ship.

And, too, the power plant of the Brainchild had been destined to be the source of power for the permanent base.

Of the forms outlined, the only one we have any immediate concern about is the airplane power plant.

The loss through the water jacket of the average automobile power plant is over 50 per cent.

Against the flushed sky above the city were silhouetted the high chimneys of the power plant.

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