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

This increase is partially offset by a dramatic reduction in water use at the industrial facility, as waste heat is diverted into the thermal batteries instead of being released through traditional cooling towers. —Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 5 Mar. 2026

Previously, this heat was dispensed into the atmosphere through evaporation cooling towers, but CERN's new plan is to put this waste heat to some use while improving the facilities environmental signature by way of what's called the Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) experiment. —New Atlas, 30 Jan. 2026

Outside, giant cooling towers chill the heat-absorbing water that circulates throughout the facility. —Sharon Goldman, Fortune, 27 Jan. 2026

For instance, Salt River Project and ASU have parked a device atop a cooling tower in one of the utility’s power plants, leveraging the artificially humid environment around the tower to sip on some of the escaping vapor. —Shi En Kim, AZCentral.com, 26 Jan. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1876, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for cooling tower

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