cooling tower

English

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.
   • 1993, “Last Exit to Springfield”, in The Simpsons, season 4, episode 17 (song), spoken by Lisa Simpson (Yeardley Smith):

     So we'll march day and night
     By the big cooling tower
     They have the plant
     But we have the power

Translations

tower-shaped building in which warm water is cooled by evaporation

Catalan: torre de refrigeració f Dutch: koeltoren (nl) f Finnish: jäähdytystorni French: tour de refroidissement f German: Kühlturm (de) m Hungarian: hűtőtorony (hu) Indonesian: menara pendingin Irish: túr fuaraithe m, túr fuarúcháin m Italian: torre di raffreddamento f Korean: 냉각탑(冷却塔) (naenggaktap) Norwegian: kjøletårn n Polish: wieża chłodnicza f Romanian: turn de răcire (ro) n Russian: гради́рня (ru) f (gradírnja), ба́шенный охлади́тель m (bášennyj oxladítelʹ), охлади́тельная ба́шня f (oxladítelʹnaja bášnja) Slovak: chladiaca veža Swedish: kyltorn (sv) n Turkish: soğutma kulesi Ukrainian: градирня f (hradyrnja)

Further reading

• cooling tower on Wikipedia.Wikipedia