OIL REFINERY
Dictionary entry overview: What does oil refinery mean? • OIL REFINERY (noun)
The noun OIL REFINERY has 1 sense:
1. a refinery for petroleum
Familiarity information: OIL REFINERY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• OIL REFINERY (noun)
Meaning:
A refinery for petroleum
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
oil refinery; petroleum refinery
Hypernyms ("oil refinery" is a kind of...):
refinery (an industrial plant for purifying a crude substance)
Meronyms (parts of "oil 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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