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A large device, in the form of a tower-shaped building, in which warm water is cooled by evaporation caused by circulating currents of air.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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a cooling system used in industry to cool hot water (by partial evaporation) before reusing it as a coolant
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: cooling system, cooling
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Across languages
Translations
21 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Catalan:
torre de refrigeració
— tower-shaped building in which warm water is cooled by evaporation
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Dutch:
koeltoren
— tower-shaped building in which warm water is cooled by evaporation
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Finnish:
jäähdytystorni
— tower-shaped building in which warm water is cooled by evaporation
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French:
tour de refroidissement
— tower-shaped building in which warm water is cooled by evaporation
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German:
Kühlturm
— tower-shaped building in which warm water is cooled by evaporation
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Hungarian:
hűtőtorony
— tower-shaped building in which warm water is cooled by evaporation
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Indonesian:
menara pendingin
— tower-shaped building in which warm water is cooled by evaporation
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Irish:
túr fuaraithe
— tower-shaped building in which warm water is cooled by evaporation
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Irish:
túr fuarúcháin
— tower-shaped building in which warm water is cooled by evaporation
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Italian:
torre di raffreddamento
— tower-shaped building in which warm water is cooled by evaporation
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Korean:
냉각탑
(naenggaktap)
— tower-shaped building in which warm water is cooled by evaporation
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Norwegian:
kjøletårn
— tower-shaped building in which warm water is cooled by evaporation
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Polish:
wieża chłodnicza
— tower-shaped building in which warm water is cooled by evaporation
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Romanian:
turn de răcire
— tower-shaped building in which warm water is cooled by evaporation
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Russian:
гради́рня
(gradírnja)
— tower-shaped building in which warm water is cooled by evaporation
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Russian:
ба́шенный охлади́тель
(bášennyj oxladítelʹ)
— tower-shaped building in which warm water is cooled by evaporation
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Russian:
охлади́тельная ба́шня
(oxladítelʹnaja bášnja)
— tower-shaped building in which warm water is cooled by evaporation
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Slovak:
chladiaca veža
— tower-shaped building in which warm water is cooled by evaporation
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Swedish:
kyltorn
— tower-shaped building in which warm water is cooled by evaporation
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Turkish:
soğutma kulesi
— tower-shaped building in which warm water is cooled by evaporation
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Ukrainian:
градирня
(hradyrnja)
— tower-shaped building in which warm water is cooled by evaporation
