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Definition of substation
: a subordinate or subsidiary station: such asa : a branch post officeb : a subsidiary station in which electric current is transformedc : a police station serving a particular area
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The theft occurred at the Entergy substation in the 1800 block of Julia Street.
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A massive cemetery containing human bones and large funerary urns was found in western Managua by Nicaragua's National Electric Transmission Company, which had been digging a ditch for a substation intended to support the new stadium.
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That outage was caused when a breaker failed at the Elkhorn Boulevard and Don Julio Boulevard substation.
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Boise residents and college students now have a safe place to drop off unwanted medications and outdated prescriptions at the Boise Police Department’s campus substation, 2245 W. University Drive, police announced Friday.
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Most of the lots held substation facilities, transformers and other utility equipment, all of which has been removed from the properties.
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Among those standards is that all plants should have at least two independent power sources such as substations, with one power line from each.
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Two locations are under consideration for the new substation, both along Pennsylvania Route 74, and dozens of potential routes for the connecting lines into Maryland are being studied.
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Perkins wants a police substation on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard to be available for the public to go inside and ask questions or file complaints.
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First Known Use of substation
1833
SUBSTATION Defined for English Language Learners
substation
playDefinition of substation for English Language Learners
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: a place where the strength of electricity is changed as the electricity passes through on its way from the power plant to homes and businesses
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: a police station that serves a particular area
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