electrical generation

collocation in English

meaningsofelectricalandgeneration

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electrical
adjective
uk
/iˈlek.trɪ.kəl/us
/iˈlek.trɪ.kəl/
relating ...
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generation
noun
uk
/ˌdʒen.əˈreɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌdʒen.əˈreɪ.ʃən/
all the people of about the same age within a society or within a ...
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The main sources ofelectricalgenerationare nuclear, and coal power plants.
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The combinedelectricalgenerationcapability of each submarine is 4.2 megawatts.
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Electricalgenerationfrom peat consumption, as a percent of totalelectricalgeneration, was reduced from 18.8% to 6.1%, between 1990 and 2004.
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Qualitrol delivers partial discharge monitoring, asset protection equipment and information products acrosselectricalgeneration, transmission and distribution.
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A large coal poweredelectricalgenerationplant was built.
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Priority has been given to coal mining, toelectricalgenerationand to the development areas, but it has not been given to food production.
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It will be obvious that if we can succeed in doing that, we shall have made a major scientific break-through inelectricalgeneration.
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For example, in the context of electricity and the huge figure of £358 million, let us judge the different methods ofelectricalgeneration.
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There is no reason why private companies should not engage inelectricalgeneration.
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There is the question of the amount of capital that is available for investment in this very important industry,electricalgeneration.
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If it is taken at a high enough temperature to be directly useful for district heating, the efficiency ofelectricalgenerationdeclines.
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Is it not a fact that modern methods ofelectricalgenerationuse up almost the theoretical amount of heat?
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As well as advancing techniques ofelectricalgeneration, we shall have advancing techniques in the stations themselves.
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With such a set-up, the heat going out of the turbine can be taken, with no loss of energy orelectricalgeneration.
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Two of the main derivatives are marine turbines and turbines forelectricalgeneration.
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For some years—in fact for so long as we can foresee—we shall have to depend to a great extent onelectricalgenerationby coal.
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The relationship of atomic energy withelectricalgenerationis an obvious illustration.
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Is not a great deal of this expenditure going towardselectricalgeneration, some of it by nuclear means, which we have been told recently cannot be economic before 1970?
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In the former are docks, coal mines and railways, while in the latter—the expanding industries—areelectricalgenerationand manufacture, aircraft, automobiles and trucks, to mention a few.
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Even if we accept that there will be moreelectricalgenerationand competition, the critical point will be upon whom this competitive pressure will actually operate.
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