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ˈpower plant
Also power-plant, powerplant.
[f. power n.1 + plant n.1]
(An) apparatus or an installation which provides power; those parts of a machine, vehicle, or aircraft which provide power; an engine; a power station. Also transf.
1890Jrnl. Franklin Inst. CXXIX. 270 Power Plant... Street-car work imposes a very variable load on the engines and dynamos... We require stronger engines than are needed for constant loads. 1897E. K. Scott Electr. Power in Workshops 65 Messrs. Willans and Robinson are also laying down an extensive power plant for their new works at Rugby. 1909Westm. Gaz. 4 May 4/1 The rigid dirigible..cannot be made to lift the weight of the power-plant necessary to render it independent of all winds. 1933Newnes Compl. Wireless 595 (heading) Radio power plant. Notes on the uses, installation and servicing of rotary transformers, rotary converters, motor generators, and hand-driven generators. 1935R. H. Baker Introd. Astron. x. 209 Power derived from the waterfall, from the wind, and from fuel and food has its origin in the great power plant of the sun. 1942W. Faulkner Go down, Moses 207 They..would be back once more in the little lost county seats as barbers and garage mechanics..and power-plant firemen. 1964[see mitochondrion]. 1967Jane's Surface Skimmer Systems 1967–68 104/2 The powerplant is mounted at the aft end with an acoustic bulkhead and two crew rest rooms separating it from the main passenger cabin. 1973Nature 16 Mar. 210/1 The remaining papers..covered gas turbine, steam and Stirling-cycle powerplants for vehicles. |