heating efficiency
- noun
- Specialized
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eficiencia de calefacción
- In another recent study, reported in the July 2012 issue of the journal Sustainability, Graham Palmer, technical director of an Australian heating and cooling company, looked at trends in space heating efficiency during the last 50 years in Melbourne.
Examples
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Fireplace inserts are an easy way to increase heating efficiency.
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Simple improvements in home and business heating efficiency could save as much oil as is delivered by the Trans-Alaska Pipeline.
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To boost building heating efficiency, the elegantly simple perforated aluminum panel called Solarwall pre-warms.
Synonyms
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The use of less energy to get the same result
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the effectiveness of a heating system in converting energy into usable heat' is directly and compositionally derived from 'heating' (the process of making something warm) combined with 'efficiency' (how well something produces the desired result). Although somewhat technical, the head-modifier relation is transparent and similar noun-noun constructions exist cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the phrase's meaning.
Etymology
The term heating efficiency comes from the literal idea of heating, making a place warm, and efficiency, meaning how much energy is used rather than wasted. Imagine a heater like a kettle: if most energy warms the room it has high heating efficiency, but if much escapes it is low, so the term means how well a system turns energy into 'usable heat'.