generating plant


An installation that produces electric current (see also current) for commercial sale. In the United States, most electricity is generated from fossil fuels; some is generated by nuclear reactors.

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How to use generating plant in a sentence

  • They haven't learned enough yet to want to get the light-generating plant installed in their midst.

  • The entire big plant is lighted by its own electric generating plant.

    With the Doughboy in France | Edward Hungerford
  • The Al-Tahoe Company owns its own electric generating plant and supplies all the cottages with electric light.

    The Lake of the Sky | George Wharton James
  • It includes a dark room, printing lantern, and light-generating plant.

  • Additional buildings and machinery, together with a new generating-plant, are now being installed.

    Our Navy in the War | Lawrence Perry