🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

Planta piloto

Pronunciation / Transliteration: plan-ta pee-lo-ta

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Pilot Plant/ˈpaɪ.lət plænt/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #15000 frequency
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"A empresa construiu uma planta piloto para testar novos processos."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A small-scale industrial facility that is used to test and validate processes before they are implemented on a larger scale.

    "The company built a pilot plant to experiment with new chemical processes."
  2. 2

    A facility designed to produce a limited quantity of a product for research and development purposes.

    "The pilot plant allowed researchers to refine the production methods before launching the product."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term 'pilot plant' combines 'pilot', derived from the Latin 'pīlōtus', meaning 'to guide', and 'plant', from the Latin 'planta', meaning 'a young tree or sprout'. Historically, the term evolved in the 20th century to refer to a small-scale industrial plant used to test processes before full-scale production.

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🇫🇷French → English

Usine pilote

Transliteration: y-zin pee-lot

"L'entreprise a construit une usine pilote pour tester de nouveaux procédés."

🇩🇪German → English

Pilotanlage

Transliteration: pee-lot-an-lah-guh

"Das Unternehmen hat eine Pilotanlage gebaut, um neue Verfahren zu testen."

🇮🇹Italian → English

Impianto pilota

Transliteration: im-pyan-to pee-lo-ta

"L'azienda ha costruito un impianto pilota per sperimentare nuovi processi."

🇪🇸Spanish → English

Planta piloto

Transliteration: plan-ta pee-lo-ta

"La empresa construyó una planta piloto para probar nuevos procesos."

🇵🇹Portuguese → English

Planta piloto

Transliteration: plan-ta pee-lo-ta

"A empresa construiu uma planta piloto para testar novos processos."

🇮🇳Hindi → English

पायलट संयंत्र

Transliteration: pāyalaṭ saṃyantra

"कंपनी ने नए प्रक्रियाओं का परीक्षण करने के लिए एक पायलट संयंत्र बनाया।"

🇨🇳Chinese → English

试点工厂

Transliteration: shì diǎn gōng chǎng

"公司建立了一个试点工厂来测试新工艺。"

🇰🇷Korean → English

파일럿 플랜트

Transliteration: pailleoteu peullaenteu

"회사는 새로운 공정을 테스트하기 위해 파일럿 플랜트를 건설했습니다."

🇯🇵Japanese → English

パイロットプラント

Transliteration: pairotto puranto

"会社は新しいプロセスをテストするためにパイロットプラントを建設しました。"

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