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Definitions for Smokestack
ˈsmoʊkˌstæksmoke·stack

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. smokestack, stacknoun

    a large tall chimney through which combustion gases and smoke can be evacuated

Wiktionary

  1. smokestacknoun

    A conduit or group of conduits atop a structure allowing smoke to flow out.

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  1. smokestack

    A smokestack is a large chimney-like structure typically attached to factories, power plants, or ships, used to discharge smoke, fumes, and waste gases from a furnace, boiler, or engine into the atmosphere.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Smokestacknoun

    a chimney; esp., a pipe serving as a chimney, as the pipe which carries off the smoke of a locomotive, the funnel of a steam vessel, etc

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Smokestack in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Smokestack in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of Smokestack in a Sentence

  1. Michael Jasny:

    Current efforts are like trying to control air pollution by putting a fence around a smokestack.

  2. Ken Caldeira:

    We need social tipping points, where the average person thinks it's not okay to build a smokestack or a tailpipe, or to use the sky as a dumping ground, it's only when the average person changes their thinking that things will change.

  3. Lauri Myllyvirta:

    The lower air quality targets seem to reflect changed priorities, the policymakers have let smokestack industries rebound, even if it means slowing progress on air quality.

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