1The part of a railway yard taken up by points, in which trains are made up.
道岔区；编组场
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Over 16-course Chinese dinners, Teguh Ganda charmed investors with stories of his humble college education in China during the Cultural Revolution and his days working in a railroad switchyard.
The switch yard is a very busy place as trains are broken up and cars are switched into sidings.
They contemplated moving the highway to accommodate a possible railway switchyard.
On exam, his chest and abdomen looks like a railroad switchyard.
2An enclosed area of a power system containing the switchgear.
（发电站里开关装置集中的）开关场
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There, the power generation plant at Khor Az Zubahr has a dual switchyard.
Debris hurled through the air by strong winds can also cause havoc at the plants' outdoor switchyards, where the megawatts they generate flow into high voltage lines.
The Hyderabad unit would manufacture the boiler feed pumps and Bhopal and Jhansi units would supply electricals and switchyard equipment, the release said.
Aluminum is used widely for high-voltage switchyard bus, as tubular aluminum conductors provide a very favorable combination of mechanical and electrical characteristics.
The scope of work for the project involves the installation of two new 120 MW turbines and accompanying skids, modules, switchyard, busduct, transformers, and embedded conduit systems.
The project employs 310 Iraqi workers and covers the rehabilitation of both turbines and the refurbishment of the 132kV switchyard.
Definition of switchyard in US English:
switchyard
nounˈswɪtʃˌjɑrdˈswiCHˌyärd
US
1The part of a railroad yard taken up by junctions, in which trains are made up.
道岔区；编组场
Example sentencesExamples
The switch yard is a very busy place as trains are broken up and cars are switched into sidings.
Over 16-course Chinese dinners, Teguh Ganda charmed investors with stories of his humble college education in China during the Cultural Revolution and his days working in a railroad switchyard.
They contemplated moving the highway to accommodate a possible railway switchyard.
On exam, his chest and abdomen looks like a railroad switchyard.
2An enclosed area of a power system containing the switchgear.
（发电站里开关装置集中的）开关场
Example sentencesExamples
Debris hurled through the air by strong winds can also cause havoc at the plants' outdoor switchyards, where the megawatts they generate flow into high voltage lines.
The project employs 310 Iraqi workers and covers the rehabilitation of both turbines and the refurbishment of the 132kV switchyard.
Aluminum is used widely for high-voltage switchyard bus, as tubular aluminum conductors provide a very favorable combination of mechanical and electrical characteristics.
The scope of work for the project involves the installation of two new 120 MW turbines and accompanying skids, modules, switchyard, busduct, transformers, and embedded conduit systems.
There, the power generation plant at Khor Az Zubahr has a dual switchyard.
The Hyderabad unit would manufacture the boiler feed pumps and Bhopal and Jhansi units would supply electricals and switchyard equipment, the release said.