cooling tower

English

Cooling towers at Martins Creek Power Plant, Pennsylvania

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