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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A complex of structures, machinery, and associated equipment for generating electric energy from another source of energy, such as nuclear reactions or a hydroelectric dam.
- noun All the equipment, including structural members, that constitutes a unit power source.
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- noun A
station built for theproduction ofelectric power ; apower station . - noun The
portion of avehicle devoted to providingenergy formotion ; theengine ormotor .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an electrical generating station
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