cooling tower

English

Cooling towers at Martins Creek Power Plant, Pennsylvania

Noun

cooling tower (plural cooling towers)

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

Translations

tower-shaped building in which warm water is cooled by evaporation

Catalan: torre de refrigeració f
Dutch: koeltoren (nl) f
French: tour de refroissement f
German: Kühlturm (de) m
Hungarian: hűtőtorony (hu)
Indonesian: menara pendingin
Irish: túr fuaraithe m, túr fuarúcháin m
Italian: torre di raffreddamento f
Korean: 냉각탑(冷却塔) (naenggaktap)
Norwegian: kjøletårn n
Romanian: turn de răcire (ro) n
Russian: гради́рня (ru) f (gradírnja)
Slovak: chladiaca veža
Swedish: kyltorn (sv) n
Turkish: soğutma kulesi
Ukrainian: градирня f (hradyrnja)

Further reading

cooling tower on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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