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Webster 1913 Edition

Refinery

Re-fin′er-y

(-?)

,

Noun.

;

pl.

Refineries

(-[GREEK]z)

.

[Cf. F.

raffinerie

.]

1.

The building and apparatus for refining or purifying, esp. metals and sugar.

2.

A furnace in which cast iron is refined by the action of a blast on the molten metal.

Webster 1828 Edition

Refinery

REFI'NERY

,

Noun.

The place and apparatus for refining metals.

Definition 2024

refinery

refinery

English

Noun

refinery ‎(plural refineries)

A building, or a mass of machinery, used to produce refined products such as sugar, oil, or metals.

Related terms

Translations

building used to produce refined products

Chinese:
Mandarin: 精煉廠 (zh), 精炼厂 (zh) ‎(jīngliàn chǎng)
Czech: rafinérie (cs) f
Dutch: raffinaderij (nl) f
Finnish: jalostamo (fi)
French: raffinerie (fr) f
German: Raffinerie (de) f
Greek: διυλιστήριο (el) n ‎(diylistírio)
Hungarian: finomító (hu)
Indonesian: kilang (id)
Italian: raffineria (it) f
Japanese: 精錬所 ‎(せいれんしょ, seirensho)

Persian: پالایشگاه (fa) ‎(pâlâyešgâh)
Polish: rafineria (pl) f
Portuguese: refinaria (pt) f
Russian: (oil) нефтеперераба́тывающий заво́д m ‎(neftepererabátyvajuščij zavód), нефтезаво́д (ru) m ‎(neftezavód), НПЗ (ru) m ‎(NPZ), (sugar) са́харный заво́д ‎(sáxarnyj zavód)
Spanish: refinería f
Swedish: raffinaderi (sv) n
Turkish: rafineri (tr)
Volapük: rafinükamöp (vo), (sugar) juegirafinükamöp