switchyard
noun
switch·yard
| \ ˈswich-ˌyärd
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Definition of switchyard
: a usually enclosed area for the switching facilities of a power station
Examples of switchyard in a Sentence
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That year, Miguel Avena was in a five-person team conducting maintenance at a switchyard that serves the Saguaro natural-gas power plant north of Tucson when he was killed. — Ryan Randazzo, azcentral, "Electrician Rick Castillo identified as APS worker killed in downtown Phoenix fire," 1 July 2019 The northern half is another story: an industrial expanse that includes Con Edison switchyards, a gypsum manufacturing facility and Entergy’s Indian Point Energy Center, with its domed nuclear reactors set on 240 riverfront acres. — Susan Hodara, New York Times, "Buchanan, N.Y.: A Waterfront Village Braces for Big Changes," 27 June 2018 The crash happened near a switchyard south of Columbia where railcars hauling automobiles are loaded and unloaded. — Meg Kinnard, The Seattle Times, "Screams and crying among passengers after Amtrak train crash," 4 Feb. 2018 Taylor was instrumental in building the beam switchyard, which allowed multiple experiments to run at the same time, as well as its giant spectrometer. — Amina Khan, latimes.com, "Richard Taylor, Stanford physicist who won Nobel Prize for discovering quarks, dies at 88," 29 Mar. 2018 The crash happened near a switchyard about 10 miles (16 kilometers) south of Columbia where railcars hauling automobiles are loaded and unloaded. — Meg Kinnard, The Seattle Times, "Amtrak crash in South Carolina leaves 2 dead, over 100 hurt," 4 Feb. 2018 The crash happened near a switchyard about 10 miles (16 kilometers) south of Columbia where autos are loaded and unloaded from railcars. — Meg Kinnard, Houston Chronicle, "Amtrak crash leaves 2 dead, injures over 100," 4 Feb. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'switchyard.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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