"cooling tower" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: cooling towers [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} cooling tower (plural cooling towers)
  1. 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 Translations (tower-shaped building in which warm water is cooled by evaporation): torre de refrigeració [feminine] (Catalan), koeltoren [feminine] (Dutch), jäähdytystorni (Finnish), tour de refroidissement [feminine] (French), Kühlturm [masculine] (German), hűtőtorony (Hungarian), menara pendingin (Indonesian), túr fuaraithe [masculine] (Irish), túr fuarúcháin [masculine] (Irish), torre di raffreddamento [feminine] (Italian), 냉각탑 (naenggaktap) (alt: 冷却塔) (Korean), kjøletårn [neuter] (Norwegian), wieża chłodnicza [feminine] (Polish), turn de răcire [neuter] (Romanian), гради́рня (gradírnja) [feminine] (Russian), ба́шенный охлади́тель (bášennyj oxladítelʹ) [masculine] (Russian), охлади́тельная ба́шня (oxladítelʹnaja bášnja) [feminine] (Russian), chladiaca veža (Slovak), kyltorn [neuter] (Swedish), soğutma kulesi (Turkish), градирня (hradyrnja) [feminine] (Ukrainian)

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      "word": "torre di raffreddamento"
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      "sense": "tower-shaped building in which warm water is cooled by evaporation",
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      "code": "no",
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      "sense": "tower-shaped building in which warm water is cooled by evaporation",
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      "sense": "tower-shaped building in which warm water is cooled by evaporation",
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