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troughlike

troughlike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a trough.

Adjective

troughlike (comparative more troughlike, superlative most troughlike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a trough.
    • SAN FRANCISCO, July 23 — Pacific Gas & Electric, Northern California’s major utility, is announcing a commitment on Wednesday to purchase 550 megawatts of solar power to be generated by troughlike arrays of mirrors spread over nine square miles in the Mojave Desert.2007 July 25, Felicity Barringer, “California Utility Agrees to Buy Power Generated by Solar Array”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 05 May 2021

Forms of troughlike

comparativemore troughlike
superlativemost troughlike

Origin of troughlike

From trough + -like.

Questions about troughlike

What does troughlike mean?
Troughlike means resembling or characteristic of a trough.
What part of speech is troughlike?
Troughlike is an adjective.

Words near troughlike in the dictionary

  1. troughful
  2. troughfuls
  3. troughing
  4. troughings
  5. troughless
  6. troughlike
  7. troughs
  8. troughsful
  9. Troughton
  10. Troughton level
  11. Troughton levels

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