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Definition of Powerhouses
1. powerhouse [n] - See also: powerhouse
Lexicographical Neighbors of Powerhouses
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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