Dictionary entry
Substation
Pronunciation: /ˈsʌbsteɪʃ(ə)n/
Pronunciation
/ˈsʌbsteɪʃ(ə)n/
Myanmar Meaning
ဓာတ်အားခွဲရုံ။
Definition
substation /'sʌbsteÇʃn/ n ဓာတ္အားခြဲ ႐ံု။
Examples
- ‘Energy bosses have publicly apologised for the disruption to power supplies caused following an explosion at the main electricity substation in Witham.’
- ‘Armed and camouflaged individuals can get close to chemical
- agricultural
- business facilities
- gas pipelines
- electrical powerlines
- substations
- transformers and airports.’
- ‘The project will involve the installation of two key high-voltage substations in the Nampower transmission system for the new Skorpion zinc mine.’
- ‘Management claim a fire at an electrical substation near its Limerick headquarters disrupted the company's manufacturing process for a period of three months.’
- ‘In a section of the affected areas
- power supply was restored by taking some power from the Kishangarh substation near Mani Majra.’
- ‘They were electrocuted in a power substation where they hid
- thinking police were chasing them.’
- ‘I mean
- there's hundreds of thousands of miles of transmission grid
- there's countless substations where the electricity gets rerouted.’
- ‘The substations
- which distribute power to the local community
- have been forced open by vandals who have damaged the equipment inside causing power cuts.’
- ‘Southern Pines supplies electricity to the substation that powers the Colonial pipeline.’
- ‘Until the construction of the new substation
- the towns of Walvis Bay
- Henties Bay
- Swakopmund and Arandis were supplied with power from a substation in Omaruru.’
- ‘That
- however
- will require significant upgrades of utility substations and power lines.’
- ‘With the chimney stack sited perilously close to an old K Shoes warehouse which needs to be preserved and an electricity substation providing power to homes in the area
- softly-softly is the watchword.’
- ‘Next door to the proposed site is a massive electrical substation with overhead power cables carrying 33
- 000 volts.’
- ‘Later in the day
- a cable failed on The Strand at the point of old digger damage
- causing a switchgear failure at the substation and power cuts lasting over an hour.’
- ‘The electricity grid is another example of this
- with hundreds of thousands of wires
- cables and substations taking power over and underground across the country
- literally ‘connecting’ all of us in some way.’
- ‘Many utility issues were solved with a visit to the power substation
- water pumping plant
- or sewage treatment facility.’
- ‘Expect some major upgrades to roads
- the water supply
- electrical substations
- parks and housing before the year's end.’
- ‘York Railway Station was evacuated and trains prevented from stopping after the electricity substation which supplies its power was flooded at around 7pm.’
- ‘This stepped pool of flowing water and the extended roof also help to mask both the noise and the view of passing traffic and the transformers in the electrical substation opposite.’
- ‘He said the power that will be supplied to the substation would come from the Nampower station in Keetmanshoop
- which is a distance of about 300 km.’