[in-sin-uh-rey-ter] 
| a furnace or apparatus for burning trash, garbage, etc., to ashes. |
| in·cin·er·a·tor (ĭn-sĭn'ə-rā'tər) n. One that incinerates, especially an apparatus, such as a furnace, for burning waste. |
incinerator
container for burning refuse, or plant designed for large-scale refuse combustion. In the second sense, an incinerator consists of a furnace into which the refuse is charged and ignited (usually by a gas burner), a secondary chamber in which burning at a high temperature is continued to complete the combustion process, and flues to convey the gases to a chimney. Auxiliary equipment may include steam boilers for using waste heat to generate electricity or to heat nearby buildings and devices for removing ash and other pollutants from the flue gases.
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