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substation

/suhb-stey-shuhn/US // ˈsʌbˌsteɪ ʃən //UK // (ˈsʌbˌsteɪʃən) //

变电站,变电所,分站,分电站

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a branch of a main post office.
    • : an auxiliary power station where electrical current is converted, as from AC to DC, voltage is stepped up or down, etc.

Examples

  • The most significant damage was to the company’s transmission lines, which carry the electricity from the power plants to local substations.

  • The damage to substations could also be significant, with flooding being the most likely cause, he said.

  • Borlaug and his colleagues modeled substation requirements using data from real-world diesel delivery fleets.

  • That would mean the government would have to buy out SDG&E’s massive system of poles and wires and substations in order to take over.

  • We monitor the electrical connections between substations and other operating companies to control the electrical grid throughout Prince George’s County, Montgomery County, and the District.

  • One of the items published by Parastoo was a blueprint for a substation at a proposed nuclear plant in South Carolina.

  • There are also reports that there was at least one substation explosion in the Greenwich Village area.

  • These earth-return cables are connected in series with special low-voltage dynamos (called negative boosters) at the substation.

  • The postmark is that of the substation in the city which is nearest to a certain political headquarters on Fourteenth Street.

  • A train of our ether waves accidently fell into parallelism with a train of waves from the Venus Substation.

  • "Then they'll show up at the substation again four or five days behind us," the Commissioner said.

  • So could the fact that they had constructed the substation for it—in itself a grave breach of Federation treaties.