Definition of "cooling tower" []

• A large tower or similar structure typically attached to a power plant through which water is circulated to lower its temperature by partial evaporation. (noun)

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• "You'd have a wooden thing they call a cooling tower and run the water through that to cool it off before it went into the pool."