单词 | substation |
释义 | substationn.1 1. A station or office subordinate to a principal establishment. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > types of building generally > [noun] > other types of building bridge house1319 searching housea1525 folly1591 engine house1626 hut1629 pot gallery1630 pantheon1713 government office1750 enclosure1754 substation1833 art centre1863 centre1884 arts centre1922 quadplex1946 quadruplex1946 bhavan1949 low-rise1965 quad1971 quadrominium1971 see-through1975 common house1989 society > occupation and work > workplace > [noun] > where staff and apparatus are stationed > subordinate substation1881 1833 Amer. Baptist Mag. Jan. 40/2 Have mercy on our mission stations at Tavoy, Maulmein and Rangoon, and our sub-stations at Mergui, Chummerah and Newville. 1881 Rep. Indian Affairs (U.S.) 45 The temporary establishing of two substations for the police..resulted in the locking up of the offenders. 1933 Jrnl. Royal Hort. Soc. 58 162 Only two varieties have been recommended for extended trial at the sub-stations. 1982 ‘M. Hebden’ Pel & Bombers ii. 12 The sous-brigadier who ran the substation at St. Blaize. 2010 T. G. Blacklock Breakfast in Kersey iii. 36 The briefing for the search warrants was at the sheriff's substation. 2. A station at which electric current is switched, transformed, or converted in the course of its onward transmission, intermediate in position between a power station and a low-voltage distribution network; esp. one for reducing the high voltage of electric power transmission to one suitable for supply to consumers. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > electrical power, electricity > place of power generation > [noun] powerhouse1870 power plant1871 installation1882 power station1887 substation1887 power centre1892 coal plant1894 power unit1904 nuke1969 1887 T. A. Edison in Electrician 5 Aug. 274/2 A circuit extends from this source of power to the various sub-stations, at each of which feeding circuits are taken off, which extend to a district to be supplied with current. 1901 Scotsman 2 Mar. 12/5 Continuous current distribution from sub-stations. 1933 Archit. Rev. 73 2 The scheme of building included..a university sub-station for electric power which supplies the laboratories. 1982 Computerworld 24 May 30/4 The electrical supply comes from two separate substations. 1996 A. Michaels Fugitive Pieces i. 98 Athos stopped in the middle of busy city streets and pointed out fossils..in the walls of a hydro substation. 2010 Daily Tel. 19 Aug. 3/8 Copper earthing was ripped out at the affected sub-stations, which were all carrying at least 11,000 volts. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). substationn.2 Telecommunications. Now rare. A telephone and associated lines and circuitry located at a subscriber's premises. ΘΚΠ society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telephony > telephone equipment > [noun] > telephone > types of microtelephone1879 field telephone1880 telephone extension1881 pay telephone1886 home telephone1893 substation1897 extension1906 railophone1911 dial phone1917 payphone1919 dial telephone1921 autophone1922 mobile telephone1930 viewphone1932 videophone1944 mobile phone1945 car phone1946 video telephone1947 speaker-phone1955 picture telephone1956 princess phone1959 touchtone telephone1961 touch-tone1962 touchtone phone1963 picture phone1964 Trimphone1965 princess telephone1966 vision-telephone1966 visiophone1971 princess1973 warbler1973 landline1977 cardphone1978 feature phone1979 smartphone1980 mobile1982 cell phone1983 Vodafone1984 cellular1985 mobile device1989 brick1990 satphone1991 celly1992 burner phone1996 keitai1998 burner2002 1897 Electr. World 25 Sept. 376 Apparatus at the central office for exclusively controlling the operation of said electromagnet, whereby its operation by substation apparatus is prevented. 1907 Telephony 13 408/2 The mechanism at the substation is so enclosed..that it is impossible for a subscriber to resort to any trick by which he can artificially establish a bridge or temporary circuit. 1922 W. Aitken Automatic Telephone Syst. I. 3 A sub-station at the subscriber's office..may consist of one, or a plurality of direct lines, or a small switchboard. 1940 Chambers's Tech. Dict. 818/1 Sub-station or subscriber's station (Teleph.), a subscriber's telephone located on his premises. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.11833n.21897 |
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