POWER PLANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does power plant mean? 

• POWER PLANT (noun)
  The noun POWER PLANT has 1 sense:

1. an electrical generating station

  Familiarity information: POWER PLANT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POWER PLANT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An electrical generating station

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

power plant; power station; powerhouse

Hypernyms ("power plant" is a kind of...):

station (a facility equipped with special equipment and personnel for a particular purpose)

Meronyms (parts of "power plant"):

bus; busbar (an electrical conductor that makes a common connection between several circuits)

turbogenerator (generator consisting of a steam turbine coupled to an electric generator for the production of electric power)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "power plant"):

wind energy facility; wind farm; wind park (a power plant that uses wind turbines to generate electricity)

Holonyms ("power plant" is a part of...):

grid; power grid; power system (a system of high tension cables by which electrical power is distributed throughout a region)

 Context examples 

The technology is entirely developed in Foz do Iguaçu, in the southern state of Paraná, where the power plant controlled by both Brazil and Paraguay is located.

(Biomethane rises as alternate source of energy in Brazil, Agência Brasil)

Particulate matter comes from a range of sources, including the burning of fossil fuels in vehicles and power plants.

(Aspirin Could Cut Air Pollution Harms, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Most of the neutrinos studied by the research team were more than a million times more energetic than the those produced by sources like the sun or nuclear power plants.

(Antarctic detector offers first look at how Earth stops high-energy neutrinos in their tracks, National Science Foundation)

But we have also seen, and this is even more striking, that the therapeutic molecule is capable of reducing the levels of intermediary metabolites of CoQ10 that can be toxic to the power plant of the cells explains Luis Carlos López García, a researcher of the UGR Biomedical Research Center.

(A new pharmacological therapy against a severe kind of deficiency in Coenzyme Q10, University of Granada)

The research looks at a large population of American women, at lab mice, and at brain tissue in petri dishes to establish a link between serious cognitive decline and the very fine particles of pollution emitted by motor vehicles, power plants and the burning of biomass products such as wood.

(The Surprising Link between Air Pollution, Alzheimer’s Disease, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)