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wheeling

[wēl·iŋ]
(electricity)
The transfer of one utility's energy over another utility's lines for delivery to a third utility.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Wheeling

 

a city in the USA, in West Virginia. Population, 48,500 (1970). A port on the Ohio River, Wheeling is in the Appalachian hard coal basin. Industry includes ferrous metallurgy and the manufacture of metal products, glass, and ceramics.

The Great Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970-1979). © 2010 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.
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