Substation

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A subsidiary or branch station, as of a post office or an electric utility.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A site where electricity supplied by long-distance (high-voltage) transmission lines is transformed and/or regulated for local (low-voltage) distribution.
  • n. A satellite police station serving one neighborhood or part of a larger jurisdiction.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A subordinate station: as, a police substation.
  • n. A subsidiary station to supplement a main station.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a subsidiary station where electricity is transformed for distribution by a low-voltage network
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