Definition of Powerhouses

1. Noun. (plural of powerhouse) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Powerhouses

1. powerhouse [n] - See also: powerhouse

Lexicographical Neighbors of Powerhouses

powerbroking
powercut
powercuts
powered
powered down
powered up
powerful
powerfull
powerfuller
powerfullest
powerfully
powerfulness
powerhead
powerheads
powerhouse
powerhouses (current term)
powering
powering down
powering up
powerlaw
powerlaws
powerless
powerlessly
powerlessness
powerlessnesses
powerlifter
powerlifters
powerlifting
powerline
powerlines

Literary usage of Powerhouses

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

1. Diversion of Water from the Great Lakes and Niagara River by United States Army. Corps of Engineers, James Goold Warren (1921)
"The lower stage portion of the plant consists of a large tunnel extending from the powerhouses on the shore of the Maid-of-the-Mist Pool to the Lower Gorge ..."

2. Season of Hope: Economic Reform Under Mandela And Mbeki by Alan Hirsch (2005)
"One of the results of this process is the exceptionally high mark-ups that remain in key sectors. Several of these rebundled industry powerhouses became ..."

3. Proceedings of Association of Iron & Steel Electrical Engineers (1916)
"It therefore seems most natural that those interested in steel mills should look to the powerhouse man for the latest thoughts on design of powerhouses. ..."

4. Water Resources: Corps of Engineers' Actions to Assist Salmon in the by Ned Smith (1999)
"However, the start of the prototype installations at the first and second powerhouses has been delayed until 1998 and 2000, respectively, ..."

5. Report on the Electric Street Railways of Milwaukee, Wisconsin: And Other by Elijah Ellsworth Brownell (1920)
"... its successors and assigns, is hereby authorized to erect and maintain the necessary plant, machinery and powerhouses for the purpose of generating such ..."

6. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1910)
"... twenty-eight pipe-lines, operating fifteen powerhouses containing forty generators with a mini mum output of close to a hundred thousand horsepower, ..."

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