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PETROLEUM REFINERY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A refinery for petroleum
Synonyms:
oil refinery; petroleum refinery
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("petroleum refinery" is a kind of...):
refinery (an industrial plant for purifying a crude substance)
Meronyms (parts of "petroleum refinery"):
cat cracker; catalytic cracker (a chemical reactor for converting oils with high boiling points into fuels with lower boiling points in the presence of a catalyst)
reformer (an apparatus that reforms the molecular structure of hydrocarbons to produce richer fuel)
