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Definition of Oil refinery

1. Noun. A refinery for petroleum.

Definition of Oil refinery

1. Noun. An industrial process plant where crude oil is processed and refined into useful petroleum products ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Oil Refinery

Literary usage of Oil refinery

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Arena by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1905)
"When Senator Porter went to the legislature, at Topeka, he carried in his pocket the State oil refinery Bill which has since caused such a wide-spread ..."

2. Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1896)
"MEANS ADOPTED FOR SAVING FUEL 71V A LARGE oil refinery. BT CHARLES £. EMERY, NEW YORK. (Member of the Society.) ONE of the most interesting professional ..."

3. Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1896)
"ONE of the most interesting professional engagements during the past year has been the study of conditions obtaining in the large oil refinery of the ..."

4. The Law of Petroleum and Natural Gas: With Forms by George Bryan (1898)
"Paraffine Works Part of oil refinery. Paraffine works may properly be included in, and construed to be part of, a manufacturing plant known and operated as ..."

5. What's on the Worker's Mind: By One who Put on Overalls to Find Out, Whiting by Whiting Williams (1920)
"... CHAPTER VIII IN AN oil refinery FOR a few days following the convention life was a sort of chameleon affair—with a day of job-seeking in old clothes ..."

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