wind farm

wind farm
noun
a power plant that uses wind turbines to generate electricity
• Hypernyms: ↑power station, ↑power plant, ↑powerhouse
• Part Meronyms: ↑wind turbine

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noun
: an area of land with a cluster of wind turbines for generating electricity

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wind farm noun
A concentration of wind-driven electricity-generating turbines, usu sited on agricultural land
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Main Entry: ↑wind

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wind farm UK [ˈwɪnd ˌfɑː(r)m] US [ˈwɪnd ˌfɑrm] noun [countable] [singular wind farm plural wind farms]
a place where wind turbines are used for producing electricity from the power of the wind
Thesaurus: equipment for making and storing electricityhyponym

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wind farm «wynd fahrm»,
windmills or turbines set up as a power plant to produce electricity.

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[wind]
n. an area of land with a group of energy-producing windmills or wind turbines

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wind farm [wind farm] [ˈwɪnd fɑːm] [fɑːrm] noun
an area of land on which there are a lot of ↑windmills or ↑wind turbines for producing electricity
 
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