cooling tower
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- noun
- /ˈkuːlɪŋ ˈtaʊər/
- Specialized
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torre de enfriamiento
- The design of modern cooling towers efficiently lowers water temperatures for reuse.
- cooling tower water
- cooling tower plant
- nuclear cooling tower
And then you have these kind of hyperbole, like they look like the cooling towers of, of nuclear power plants.
- And then you have these kind of hyperbole, like they look like the cooling towers of, of nuclear power plants.
Examples
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The factory uses large cooling towers to keep the machinery from overheating.
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They use the hexachrome here, in these cooling towers, as an anticorrosive.
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We have a problem in one of the cooling towers.
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I wanna know about how the plant works and the cooling towers, just everything.
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What do power systems for hybrid vehicles and cooling towers have in common?
Academic text (2009) -
Water run through cooling towers is treated with chemicals to prevent corrosion and biological growth.
Academic text (1996) -
The changes could force many power plants to move toward closed-loop cooling towers rather than use once-through cooling.
Academic text (2011) -
As a back-up system, Boeing decided to install two chillers that operate on cooling towers.
Academic text (1996) -
In Murphy, a company building nuclear power plant cooling towers had sued a subcontractor for cost overruns.
Academic text (1994) -
Plumes of steam from the furnace and the redwood cooling towers rose straight to the heavens.
Fiction book (1996)
How Cool
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound is directly compositional: 'cooling' (removing heat) + 'tower' (a tall structure) yields a tower used for cooling. A B1 learner who knows both constituents can readily infer it is a tall industrial structure that cools (typically water), since this noun-noun pattern is transparent and common across languages.
Etymology
The noun cooling tower comes from the picture of a tall tower where hot water is cooling as some of it turns into mist and rises into the air. That's why it means 'a tall tower that lowers the temperature of water so it can be used again'.