cooling tower en · NOUN
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A large device, in the form of a tower-shaped building, in which warm water is cooled by evaporation caused by circulating currents of air.
So we'll march day and night By the big cooling tower They have the plant But we have the power
1993, “Last Exit to Springfield”, in The Simpsons, season 4, episode 17 (song), spoken by Lisa Simpson (Yeardley Smith):
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ru ба́шенный охлади́тель (tower-shaped building in which warm water is cooled by evaporation) · no kjøletårn (tower-shaped building in which warm water is cooled by evaporation) · de Kühlturm (tower-shaped building in which warm water is cooled by evaporation) · uk градирня (tower-shaped building in which warm water is cooled by evaporation) · ko 냉각탑 (tower-shaped building in which warm water is cooled by evaporation) · ru охлади́тельная ба́шня (tower-shaped building in which warm water is cooled by evaporation) · ro turn de răcire (tower-shaped building in which warm water is cooled by evaporation) · fr tour de refroidissement (tower-shaped building in which warm water is cooled by evaporation) · hu hűtőtorony (tower-shaped building in which warm water is cooled by evaporation) · tr soğutma kulesi (tower-shaped building in which warm water is cooled by evaporation) · ga túr fuaraithe (tower-shaped building in which warm water is cooled by evaporation) · sk chladiaca veža (tower-shaped building in which warm water is cooled by evaporation) · it torre di raffreddamento (tower-shaped building in which warm water is cooled by evaporation) · fi jäähdytystorni (tower-shaped building in which warm water is cooled by evaporation) · id menara pendingin (tower-shaped building in which warm water is cooled by evaporation) · ca torre de refrigeració (tower-shaped building in which warm water is cooled by evaporation) · ga túr fuarúcháin (tower-shaped building in which warm water is cooled by evaporation) · sv kyltorn (tower-shaped building in which warm water is cooled by evaporation) · nl koeltoren (tower-shaped building in which warm water is cooled by evaporation) · ru гради́рня (tower-shaped building in which warm water is cooled by evaporation) · pl wieża chłodnicza (tower-shaped building in which warm water is cooled by evaporation)