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CCUS

CCUS is the initialism of carbon capture.

Meaning of carbon capture

Noun

carbon capture

  1. (climate change) A set of technologies designed to capture emissions of carbon dioxide from sources like power plants and industrial facilities before they enter the atmosphere.
    • Carbon capture, said the IEA, should sit alongside plans to electrify economies using renewable energy sources, replace fossil fuels with bioenergy and swap methane-rich gas for clean-burning hydrogen in factories, transport and homes.2020 September 24, Jillian Ambrose, “Carbon storage technologies critical for meeting climate targets – IEA”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

Noun capitalized: CCUs

CCUs

  1. (plural) plural of CCU

Synonyms of CCUS

Questions about CCUS

What is CCUS the initialism of?
CCUS is the initialism of carbon capture.
What part of speech is CCUS?
CCUS is a noun.

Words near CCUS in the dictionary

  1. CCTV
  2. CCTV camera
  3. CCTV cameras
  4. CCTVs
  5. CCU
  6. CCUS
  7. CCV
  8. CCVO
  9. CCVOs
  10. CCVs
  11. CCW

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Adapted from Wiktionary: CCUS (page history and authors); CCUs (page history and authors); carbon capture (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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