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renewables

renewables is the plural of renewable.

Meaning of renewable

Noun

renewable (plural renewables)

  1. A renewable resource or source of energy.
    • Klein diagnoses impressively what hasn’t worked. No more claptrap about fracked gas as a bridge to renewables. Enough already of the international summit meetings that produce sirocco-quality hot air, and nonbinding agreements that bind us all to more emissions.2014 November 6, Rob Nixon, “Naomi Klein’s ‘This Changes Everything’”, in The New York Times
  2. A renewable fuse; a fuse which can be opened in order to replace the element.
    • You'll find the link can be removed from a "Union" Renewable and replaced before most fuses can be taken apart.1920, Textile World

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Questions about renewables

What is renewables the plural of?
Renewables is the plural of renewable.

Words near renewables in the dictionary

  1. renewability
  2. renewable
  3. renewable energies
  4. renewable energy
  5. renewableness
  6. renewables
  7. renewably
  8. renewal
  9. Renewal Sunday
  10. Renewal Sundays
  11. renewal theory

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