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COOLING TOWER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does cooling tower mean?
• COOLING TOWER (noun)
The noun COOLING TOWER has 1 sense:
1. a cooling system used in industry to cool hot water (by partial evaporation) before reusing it as a coolant
Familiarity information: COOLING TOWER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A cooling system used in industry to cool hot water (by partial evaporation) before reusing it as a coolant
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("cooling tower" is a kind of...):
cooling; cooling system (a mechanism for keeping something cool)
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