transformer station

collocation in English

meaningsoftransformerandstation

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transformer
noun[C]
uk
/trænsˈfɔː.mər/us
/trænsˈfɔːr.mɚ/
a device that changes the voltage or other characteristic of electrical energy as it moves from one circuit ...
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station
noun[C]
uk
/ˈsteɪ.ʃən/us
/ˈsteɪ.ʃən/
a building and the surrounding area where buses or trains stop for people to get on ...
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(Definition oftransformerandstationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The oil tanks and the associated pipework lie outside the fenced enclosures that formed the originaltransformerstation.
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In order to give a supply it will be necessary to erect half a mile of line together with atransformerstation.
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If an engineer wants, perhaps, to put down a new main, or set up a newtransformerstation, he cannot work out any budget of capital expenditure.
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A one-storytransformerstationwas added to the east side of the building in the 1920s.
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Thetransformerstationwas placed at the back and on top of the powerhouse itself due to the confines of the gorge.
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They quickly found their explosives where they had hidden them on the first night: in ferns a hundred metres from thetransformerstation.
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I understand that the total cost of the line, which is a double circuit, including transformer stations and pylons, is approximately £63,000.
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They have sites on which to put their transformer stations and sub-stations for the tramways.
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If it excludes pylons and boosters and transformer stations, is not this an injustice to the local authority on whose land they are situated?
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Why is it not conceded in respect of pylons, boosters and transformer stations?
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Infrastructure involves substations and transformer stations, power lines and electrical cable.
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Transformer stations are usually surrounded with barbed-wire fences.
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In the transformer stations, the pressure is reduced and used for heating blocks of flats.
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The power distribution network has serious problems, with transmission losses estimated as high as 25 percent of total generated capacity as a result of poor quality wires and transformer stations.
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