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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
substation
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A somewhat different system simulated the effect of momentarily jamming an iron bar across the terminals in the substation.
▪ Carrillo, chief of the La Presa substation, was shot Monday night as he arrived home from work.
▪ Henceforth, part of Sutton Power Station became a substation and the rest was leased away.
▪ No permanent damage was done to the substation, officials said.
▪ This will also house a substation for London Electricity.
▪ Thursday afternoon, federal agents moved in and out of the substation carrying metal briefcases.
▪ Two substations will be required to feed the catenary.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
substation

also sub-station, 1864 in the policing sense, from sub- + station (n.). Power grid sense is attested from 1889.

Wiktionary
substation

n. 1 A site where electricity supplied by long-distance (high-voltage) transmission lines is transformer and/or regulated for local (low-voltage) distribution. 2 A satellite police station serving one neighborhood or part of a larger jurisdiction.

WordNet
substation

n. a subsidiary station where electricity is transformed for distribution by a low-voltage network

Wikipedia
Substation

Substation can refer to:

  • Electrical substation
    • Traction substation
  • Police substation, a mini police station with limited services
  • The Substation, a Singaporean contemporary arts centre
  • SubStation Alpha, a subtitle file format

Usage examples of "substation".

If the answer proved to be yes, entire banks of substation switches would necessarily be opened, leaving segments of California without power, isolating entire communities, creating chaos.

Several days earlier a substation bad been bombed, though damage was slight.

Georgos pushed it inside the substation enclosure so it would be less noticeable, then followed it with three packets of plastic explosive, after which he wriggled through himself.

Cautiously, Georgos taped plastic explosive to the three large transformers the substation housed.

Millfield substation, snagged on a cut wire, the night the two security guards were killed.

Where else in the substation could you put a young mother and three little kids?

She worked out regularly in the basement gym at the substation, but mostly alone with weights and treadmill.

Widmer had thought the man should be sent over to the substation on a Saturday morning.

Jackie rummaged in her shoulder bag for her keys, let herself out of the substation and hurried across the parking lot to her car.

SP Three substation was instructed to throw the switch that would disconnect the whole power-bus into the SP.

If the substation can knock it out anyway, what would be the problem in having a system like Spartacus on Earth?

The manually operated circuit breakers in the substation, through which all power to SP Three was routed, were opened and left open.

After all, they argued, there were only two possible approaches that Spartacus could adopt in endeavoring to restore the SP: it could either try getting inside the substation to close the circuit there, or it could use its drones to manufacture a bypass around the substation completely.

Fred had brought them up to date, the operator in the last substation on the list was just in the process of advising that the shutdown procedure had been completed without complications.

Copernicus when the substation went out, they had missed the person who had remained behind in the apartment.