OIL REFINERY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does oil refinery mean? 

• OIL REFINERY (noun)
  The noun OIL REFINERY has 1 sense:

1. a refinery for petroleum

  Familiarity information: OIL REFINERY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OIL REFINERY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A refinery for petroleum

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

oil refinery; petroleum refinery

Hypernyms ("oil refinery" is a kind of...):

refinery (an industrial plant for purifying a crude substance)

Meronyms (parts of "oil refinery"):

cat cracker; catalytic cracker (a chemical reactor for converting oils with high boiling points into fuels with lower boiling points in the presence of a catalyst)

reformer (an apparatus that reforms the molecular structure of hydrocarbons to produce richer fuel)