What does refinery mean?

Definitions for refinery
rɪˈfaɪ nə rire·fin·e·ry

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. refinerynoun

    an industrial plant for purifying a crude substance

Wiktionary

  1. refinerynoun

    A building, or a mass of machinery, used to produce refined products such as sugar, oil, or metals.

Wikipedia

  1. Refinery

    A refinery is a production facility composed of a group of chemical engineering unit processes and unit operations refining certain materials or converting raw material into products of value.

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  1. refinery

    A refinery is an industrial facility where raw materials, particularly crude oil, natural gas, and metals are processed and transformed into more valuable and usable substances or products such as gasoline, diesel fuel, or other refined products. These establishments implement complex processes including distillation, extraction, and purification.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Refinerynoun

    the building and apparatus for refining or purifying, esp. metals and sugar

  2. Refinerynoun

    a furnace in which cast iron is refined by the action of a blast on the molten metal

  3. Etymology: [Cf. F. raffinerie.]

Wikidata

  1. Refinery

    A refinery is a production facility composed of a group of chemical engineering unit processes and unit operations refining certain materials or converting raw material into products of value.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of refinery in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of refinery in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of refinery in a Sentence

  1. Darmin Nasution:

    All this time, refinery projects are always given to Pertamina or for Pertamina and its partners, in the future, we will open it for private investors, although the refined products must be sold to Pertamina to be distributed to the whole of Indonesia.

  2. Doug Shupe:

    This is not a planned maintenance issue. It could take two to four weeks for a refinery to return to full capacity, we know drivers are frustrated by it, especially when they're dealing with higher prices in the rest of their lives.

  3. Cindy Govender:

    The refinery is still online and production has not been impacted.

  4. Matt Smith:

    The product draws provide a bullish tilt, especially given the rebound in refinery utilization, but it's a bearish sucker punch of a build from crude stocks.

  5. Manan Ahuja:

    Gas generation gets cheap if you're building at a large scale. But if you're trying to build to match your refinery or E&P (exploration and production) operations, you'd want to build something relatively inexpensive at a smaller scale, you can add more panels or windmills at a later point if your exploration and production grows.

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