GEOTHERMAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does geothermal mean? 

• GEOTHERMAL (adjective)
  The adjective GEOTHERMAL has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to the heat in the interior of the earth

  Familiarity information: GEOTHERMAL used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GEOTHERMAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to the heat in the interior of the earth

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

geothermal; geothermic

Pertainym:

heat (a form of energy that is transferred by a difference in temperature)

 Context examples 

Third, they used climate and geothermal modeling to determine how much of that water would have been in liquid form and at a suitable temperature for living things.

(Study suggests Mars hosted life-sustaining habitat for millions of years, Wikinews)

Scientists have confirmed the absence of microbial life in hot, saline, hyperacid ponds in the Dallol geothermal field in Ethiopia.

(Place discovered on earth with no microbial life, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The speed of magma rise and storage is tightly linked to the transfer of heat and chemicals in the crust of volcanic regions, which is important for geothermal power and the release of volcanic gases to the atmosphere.

(‘Crystal clocks’ used to time magma storage before volcanic eruptions, University of Cambridge)

A new NASA study adds evidence that a geothermal heat source called a mantle plume lies deep below Antarctica's Marie Byrd Land, explaining some of the melting that creates lakes and rivers under the ice sheet.

(Hot News from the Antarctic Underground, NASA)