switchgear
/ˈswɪtʃɡɪə
/noun [mass noun]
1Switching equipment used in the transmission of electricity.The business takes the company's 10 engineers on work all over the world, often for months at a time, carrying out modifications, testing, installation and commissioning of medium to high voltage switchgear....
- Currently, 45 Iraqi electricians working extended shifts are preparing the necessary power cables for the first new turbine and installing low and medium voltage switchgear.
- A portion of that Power House is still standing, which contains historical switchgear and transformers.
2The switches or electrical controls in a motor vehicle.Like Skodas, Seats use engines, transmissions, chassis and switchgear that are VW in all but name....
- From the outside it is an incarnation of the Volkswagen Passat and of the same high quality, and inside it has the air-conditioning and switchgear of the Audi and Volkswagen, but Skoda's version is much cheaper
- There is a plusher cabin interior and new console and switchgear, making the WRX series, public road-going versions of the acclaimed world rally car, a car to lust after.
- make eyes at someone
- makefile
- make for
- make free with
- make fun of
- make good
- make good one's escape
- make (great) play of (or with)
- make hard work of
- make haste
- make hay (while the sun shines)
- make head or tail of
- make heavy weather of
- make history
- make it a rule to do something
- make it big
- make it (or things) hot for
- make it snappy
- makeless
- make light of
- make light work of
- make like
- make little of
- make love
- Makem