Wiktionary
n. A piece of land on which several large storage tanks are situated.
WordNet
n. an area used exclusively for storing petroleum in large tanks
Wikipedia
Tank Farm (sometimes Tuff Crater) is the name of a volcanic explosion crater (or maar) in North Shore City, New Zealand, near the approaches to the Auckland Harbour Bridge.
Its Maori name is Te Kopua o Matakamokamo, meaning 'the basin of Matakamokamo'. Matakamokamo is an ancestral figure in Maori oral tradition who, during a domestic argument, is said to have inadvertently cursed the goddess of fire, Mahuika. As punishment, the goddess called on the parent god Mataoho, who had the necessary powers, to send up numerous volcanic eruptions to plague the hot-tempered man and his wife Matakerepo. The two eruptions that were eventually fatal to the couple were said to be at the sites of what is now called Tank Farm and Onepoto Domain respectively. Consequently, the former was named Te Kopua o Matakamokamo, and the latter Te Kopua o Matakerepo.
Part of the Auckland volcanic field, it was created by a series of explosive eruptions. Although its age is unknown it could be one of the older volcanoes in Auckland like its neighbours Onepoto and Lake Pupuke. Originally a freshwater lake, it later became a tidal lagoons when the sea levels rose after the last ice age. Tank Farm is mostly in its natural state, though some parts of the tuff ring were quarried and its name stems from the petrochemicals storage tanks located here during World War II.
The local council uses the name Tuff Crater for this volcano - a name taken from Hochstetter's (1864) map of the volcanoes of Auckland where a number of volcanoes, including Tank Farm, were each labelled "tuff crater" or "tuff craters".
Usage examples of "tank farm".
There was footage of fires and floods, an earthquake, an announcement that the government had decided to retain its subsidies for traditional agriculture a little longer, a report that someone had poisoned a squadron of Air Force warbirds, another that a warbird had bombed a tank farm, killing fifty of the rhino-based genimals.
The site had its own power plant, along with a huge fuel-tank farm, whose tanks were semi buried in deference to local weather conditions, and connected by their own pipeline to a filling point just off 1-70 at Kanopolis.
The in-close fuel tanks appear undamaged, and nothing at all seems to have hit the tank farm at Hakotstangar.
And at one hundred meters off the ground, just above the tank farm, it detonated.
Keasiceau had taken part in both the massacre in Nova Scotia and the attack on the Boston fuel tank farm.
The streetlights were all out, but the giant pyres where the jets had dropped towered into the sky, and were dwarfed in turn where one had plowed into the tank farm where the fuel was stored.
But the difference in relative velocities between the tank farm and the orbiter was enough to make the two fly apart from each other.
More rarely, one of StateSec's warships which found itself in the area or passing nearby on its own business might drop by for fresh food, to pick up reactor mass from the huge tank farm StateSec maintained in orbit around Hell, or for a little planetside R&.
Thanks to the huge StateSec tank farm orbiting Hell, they would be able to completely refill the bunkers of every ship afterward, and twelve hours would be more than sufficient to decide any engagement they could possibly hope to win, but none of her ships would have the reactor mass to run for it if the battle fell apart on them.
The town of Dutch Harbor, however, was out of Arkady's sight, past a tank farm and beyond the breakwater that protected a loading dock with slag heaps of rusting trawl doors and rotting snow, and gas pumps and rows of the half-ton cages called crab pots.
Harman solved the problem by finding a heavy piece of pipe in the tank farm, wrenching it free—.
Siren screaming, rooftop reds flashing, the CHP car threaded through traffic, making a blur out of passing landmarks--the former Vista del Mar country schoolhouse, the century-old Gaviota Store, the oil tank farm at Alcatraz Landing.