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Webster 1913 Edition


Heating

Heat′ing

(hēt′ĭng)
,
Adj.
That heats or imparts heat; promoting warmth or heat; exciting action; stimulating;
as,
heating
medicines or applications
.
Heating surface
(Steam Boilers)
,
the aggregate surface exposed to fire or to the heated products of combustion, esp. of all the plates or sheets that are exposed to water on their opposite surfaces; – called also
fire surface
.

Webster 1828 Edition


Heating

HE'ATING

,
ppr.
Making warm or hot; inflaming; rousing the passions; exasperating.
1.
Tending to impart heat to; promoting warmth or heat; exciting action; stimulating; as heating medicines or applications.

Definition 2024


heating

heating

English

Noun

heating (countable and uncountable, plural heatings)

  1. A system that raises the temperature of a room or building. Compare heater.
  2. The act of making something hot.
    The crucible was subjected to several heatings.

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Translations

Adjective

heating (comparative more heating, superlative most heating)

  1. Causing heat.

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Verb

heating

  1. present participle of heat

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