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    PETROLEUM REFINERY

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A refinery for petroleumplay

    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)

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