🇮🇹Italian Source WordCode: IT

impianto di pubblica utilità

Pronunciation / Transliteration: imˈpjan.to di ˈpub.bli.ka u.tiˈli.ta

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Utility plant/ˈjuː.tɪ.li plænt/
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🇮🇹 Example Sentence in Italian:

"L'impianto di pubblica utilità garantisce l'erogazione dell'acqua potabile."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    An industrial facility that generates, treats, or distributes essential public services such as electricity, water, steam, or sewage treatment.

    "The city's utility plant provides power and clean drinking water to over two hundred thousand residents."
  2. 2

    An on-site industrial building or collection of equipment within a large manufacturing facility that provides necessary power, compressed air, and heating or cooling to production operations.

    "Engineers were dispatched to the manufacturing site's utility plant to repair the main steam boiler."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the English 'utility' (from Latin 'utilitas', meaning usefulness or profit) combined with 'plant' (from Latin 'planta', originally referring to a sprout or shoot, later extended to industrial buildings and machinery). The compound term emerged in the late 19th and early 20th centuries with the rise of municipal infrastructure, electrical grids, and industrial manufacturing complexes.

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🇫🇷French → English

centrale de services

Transliteration: sɑ̃.tral də sɛʁ.vis

"La centrale de services assure l'alimentation en électricité de la ville."

🇩🇪German → English

Versorgungsanlage

Transliteration: fɛɐ̯ˈzɔʁɡʊŋsˌʔanlaːɡə

"Die neue Versorgungsanlage versorgt das Industriegebiet mit Fernwärme."

🇮🇹Italian → English

impianto di pubblica utilità

Transliteration: imˈpjan.to di ˈpub.bli.ka u.tiˈli.ta

"L'impianto di pubblica utilità garantisce l'erogazione dell'acqua potabile."

🇪🇸Spanish → English

planta de servicios públicos

Transliteration: ˈplanta de seɾˈβisios ˈpuβlikos

"La planta de servicios públicos fue modernizada para reducir las emisiones."

🇵🇹Portuguese → English

usina de utilidades

Transliteration: uˈzinɐ dʒi u.ti.liˈdadʒis

"A usina de utilidades fornece vapor para o processo industrial."

🇮🇳Hindi → English

उपयोगिता संयंत्र

Transliteration: upayogita sanyantra

"यह उपयोगिता संयंत्र पूरे शहर को बिजली की आपूर्ति करता है।"

🇨🇳Chinese → English

公用设施厂

Transliteration: gōng yòng shè shī chǎng

"该公用设施厂负责供应全市的水电资源。"

🇰🇷Korean → English

유틸리티 플랜트

Transliteration: yutiliti peuranteu

"화학 공장의 유틸리티 플랜트는 안정적인 증기 공급을 담당합니다."

🇯🇵Japanese → English

ユーティリティプラント

Transliteration: yūtiriti puranto

"そのユーティリティプラントは工場全体に電気と水を供給しています。"

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