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power line

power line noun: an electrical wire, cable or conduit, suspended in air by utility poles or transmission towers, or buried underground, used for the carrying of electricity either from a power source such as a generating station to a substation, or from a substation to a building such as a plant, commercial building or a home.

power line: an electrical wire, cable or conduit, suspended in air by utility poles or transmission towers, or...
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Noun

power line (plural power lines)

  1. An electrical wire, cable or conduit, suspended in air by utility poles or transmission towers, or buried underground, used for the carrying of electricity either from a power source such as a generating station to a substation, or from a substation to a building such as a plant, commercial building or a home.

power line meaning in Tamil and Arabic

power line in Tamil

மின் தொடா

power line in Arabic

electrical wire
خَطّ اَلْكَهْرَبَاء ḵaṭṭ al-kahrabāʔ, خَطّ اَلطَّاقَة ḵaṭṭ aṭ-ṭāqa

Forms of power line

pluralpower lines
alternative formpowerline
alternative formpower-line

Questions about power line

What does power line mean?
Power line means an electrical wire, cable or conduit, suspended in air by utility poles or transmission towers, or buried underground, used for the carrying of electricity either from a power source such as a generating station to a substation, or from a substation to a building such as a plant, commercial building or a home.
What is power line in Tamil?
Power line in Tamil is மின் தொடா. See Power line meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is power line?
Power line is a noun.
What is the plural of power line?
The plural of power line is power lines.

Words near power line in the dictionary

  1. power laws
  2. power lead
  3. power leads
  4. power level
  5. power levels
  6. power line
  7. power line communication
  8. power line communications
  9. power lines
  10. power loom
  11. power looms

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Adapted from Wiktionary: power line (page history and authors); power line (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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