heating
- 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
A rise in temperature that makes something hotter
Antonyms
Compounds
A system that warms a building by making hot water or air in one place and sending it to rooms
- Specialized
A metal part inside a kettle, oven, or heater that gets hot to make things warm
- Specialized
A system that makes hot vapor in a heater to warm rooms through pipes and radiators
- Specialized
Heating an insulating material with a high-frequency electric field that makes molecules move and heat up
- Specialized
To heat metal by making electric currents inside it using magnetic fields
- Specialized
A way to make a building warm by using panels in floors, walls, or ceilings that give out warmth
- Specialized
A system that warms rooms with hot wires or pipes inside walls, floors and ceilings
How Warm
Surface Forms
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.