cooling tower

noun

: a structure over which circulated water is trickled to reduce its temperature by partial evaporation

Examples of cooling tower in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The hot water circulates through cooling towers or over wet pads that are exposed to air, and the portion that evaporates carries heat away with it. — Katie Tarasov, CNBC, 5 Nov. 2026

Small town, big data center Few towns know what a good deal looks like better than Perry, which has been molded for the past half-century by the looming cooling towers of its local nuclear power plant. — Sara Herschander, Vox, 5 Nov. 2026

In facilities equipped with evaporative cooling towers, some of the circulating water evaporates, carrying heat out of the data center into the atmosphere. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 9 Oct. 2026

Health officials emphasized the probe is not focused on a cooling tower, unlike prior outbreaks across the city, and added this is not a community cluster investigation and there is no risk to the surrounding area. — Nicole Alarcon, CBS News, 6 Oct. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1876, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for cooling tower

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