heating
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1.0
- noun
- /ˈhiːtɪŋ/
- A temperature of 36 degrees Celsius was chosen to produce moderate heating of the skin.
- heating thresholds
- self-heating
- heating rate
Examples
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Used oil is frequently burned as heating fuel and thus produces air pollution.
Academic text (1992) -
Once we have clean electricity, we can begin to electrify many processes from steel-making to heating that now require fossil fuels.
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Good news, I may have a solution to my heating problem.
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- Can you ask them to turn the heating up?
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Because the gas pressure is low, the layer remains flat and heating is not observed.
Academic text (1995) -
For example, money for heating your house and feeding the babies.
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Not so long ago, she hadn't known the first thing about heating with a wood stove.
Fiction book (2002) -
We could demonstrate the optimal techniques to produce heating of 2-3 cm zones of tissue.
Academic text (2017) -
Moscow woke today to the forgotten sensation of warmth, as millions of gallons of heating oil flowed from a storage depot discovered beneath Tretiak's riverside mansion.
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The heating in my house is not working, so it's very cold inside.
Synonyms
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1.8
A rise in temperature that makes something hotter
Antonyms
Compounds
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2.5
A system that warms a building by making hot water or air in one place and sending it to rooms
- Specialized
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3.4
A metal part inside a kettle, oven, or heater that gets hot to make things warm
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3.5
A system that makes hot vapor in a heater to warm rooms through pipes and radiators
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4.4
A way to make a building warm by using panels in floors, walls, or ceilings that give out warmth
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6.1
To heat metal by making electric currents inside it using magnetic fields
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5.1
A system that warms rooms with hot wires or pipes inside walls, floors and ceilings
- Specialized
Heating an insulating material with a high-frequency electric field that makes molecules move and heat up
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Morphology
Etymology
The word heating comes from the word heat ('hot') and the ending -ing, which shows a change or action. So, heating is the process of becoming warm or of causing something to get warmer.