incinerator
Noun: 1. A furnace or device for burning waste materials to ashes: An incinerator is a specially designed furnace or apparatus used for the high-temperature combustion of refuse, garbage, or other waste materials, reducing them to ash, flue gas, and heat. 2. A facility or installation containing such a device: The term can also refer to the entire facility or plant where waste is processed through combustion.
The word "incinerator" is used to describe the equipment or facility designed for the controlled burning of waste. It is a formal term common in environmental science, waste management, and municipal planning contexts. * It is typically modified by words specifying the type of waste (e.g., municipal incinerator, hazardous waste incinerator) or its scale (e.g., industrial incinerator, small-scale incinerator). * It functions as a countable noun.
- The city built a new incinerator to manage its growing volume of household trash.
- Medical waste must be disposed of in a specialized incinerator that reaches extremely high temperatures.
- The old incinerator in the factory yard was used to burn scrap wood and packaging.
- Environmental groups protested against the proposed incinerator, citing air quality concerns.
- "Waste-to-energy incinerator": A specific type of incinerator that not only burns waste but also captures the heat generated to produce electricity or steam for heating.
- The waste-to-energy incinerator supplies power for thousands of homes.
- Incinerate (verb): To destroy something, especially waste material, by burning it to ashes.
- The documents were incinerated in a secure facility.
- Incineration (noun): The process of burning waste materials.
- Incineration is one method of waste disposal.
- Cremator: Specifically for burning human corpses; a related but more specialized term.
- Burner: A more general term for a device that burns fuel or material, not exclusively for waste.
- Destructor (archaic): An old-fashioned term for an incinerator.
- Incinerator ash: The residual ash left after the incineration process.
- The incinerator ash must be tested for toxins before disposal in a landfill.
- Incinerator plant: Another term for a facility housing incinerators.
- The incinerator plant operates 24 hours a day.
-
a furnace for incinerating (especially to dispose of refuse)
