HEAT ENERGY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does heat energy mean? 

• HEAT ENERGY (noun)
  The noun HEAT ENERGY has 1 sense:

1. a form of energy that is transferred by a difference in temperature

  Familiarity information: HEAT ENERGY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEAT ENERGY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A form of energy that is transferred by a difference in temperature

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Synonyms:

heat; heat energy

Hypernyms ("heat energy" is a kind of...):

energy; free energy ((physics) a thermodynamic quantity equivalent to the capacity of a physical system to do work; the units of energy are joules or ergs)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "heat energy"):

geothermal energy (energy derived from the heat in the interior of the earth)

heat of dissociation (the heat required for a fluid substance to break up into simpler constituents)

heat of formation (the heat evolved or absorbed during the formation of one mole of a substance from its component elements)

heat of solution (the heat evolved or absorbed when one mole of a substance is dissolved in a large volume of a solvent)

heat of transformation; latent heat (heat absorbed or radiated during a change of phase at a constant temperature and pressure)

specific heat (the heat required to raise the temperature of one gram of a substance one degree centigrade)

 Context examples 

Having more heat energy than the object against which it is compared.

(Hot, NCI Thesaurus)

Instead, incoming light penetrates deep into the planet's atmosphere where it is absorbed by hydrogen atoms and converted to heat energy.

(Hubble Captures Blistering Pitch-Black Planet, NASA)

Having less heat energy than the object against which it is compared; the absence of heat.

(Cold, NCI Thesaurus)

Globally, rainfall isn't related just to the clouds that are available to make rain but also to Earth's "energy budget" — incoming energy from the sun compared to outgoing heat energy.

(NASA Data Suggest Future May Be Rainier Than Expected, NASA)

Infrared light is an indicator of heat energy.

(Lava or Not, Exoplanet 55 Cancri e Likely to have Atmosphere, NASA)

When water evaporates into water vapor here on Earth's surface and rises into the atmosphere, it carries with it the heat energy that made it evaporate.

(NASA Data Suggest Future May Be Rainier Than Expected, NASA)