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CONVECT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does convect mean?
• CONVECT (verb)
The verb CONVECT has 1 sense:
1. circulate hot air by convection
Familiarity information: CONVECT used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Conjugation: |
Present simple: I / you / we / they convect ... he / she / it convects
Past simple: convected
Past participle: convected
-ing form: convecting
... he / she / it convects Past simple: convected
Past participle: convected
-ing form: convecting
Sense 1
Meaning:
Circulate hot air by convection
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Hypernyms (to "convect" is one way to...):
circulate (cause to move in a circuit or system)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Derivation:
convection ((meteorology) the vertical movement of heat or other properties by massive motion within the atmosphere)
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