Associations to the word «Substation»

Wiktionary

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

Dictionary definition

SUBSTATION, noun. A subsidiary station where electricity is transformed for distribution by a low-voltage network.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope