ELECTROSTATIC PRECIPITATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does electrostatic precipitation mean? 

• ELECTROSTATIC PRECIPITATION (noun)
  The noun ELECTROSTATIC PRECIPITATION has 1 sense:

1. a process that removes suspended dust particles from a gas by applying a high voltage electrostatic charge to the particles and collecting them on charged plates

  Familiarity information: ELECTROSTATIC PRECIPITATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ELECTROSTATIC PRECIPITATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A process that removes suspended dust particles from a gas by applying a high voltage electrostatic charge to the particles and collecting them on charged plates

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("electrostatic precipitation" is a kind of...):

industrial process (a systematic series of mechanical or chemical operations that produce or manufacture something)