HEATING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does heating mean? 

• HEATING (noun)
  The noun HEATING has 2 senses:

1. the process of becoming warmer; a rising temperature

2. utility to warm a building

  Familiarity information: HEATING used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEATING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The process of becoming warmer; a rising temperature

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

heating; warming

Hypernyms ("heating" is a kind of...):

temperature change (a process whereby the degree of hotness of a body (or medium) changes)

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

boiling (the application of heat to change something from a liquid to a gas)

global warming (an increase in the average temperature of the earth's atmosphere (especially a sustained increase that causes climatic changes))

induction heating (the heating of a conducting material caused by an electric current induced in it)

overheating (excessive heating)

radiant heating (heating a building by radiation from panels containing hot water or electrical heaters)

melt; melting; thaw; thawing (the process whereby heat changes something from a solid to a liquid)

Derivation:

heat (gain heat or get hot)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Utility to warm a building

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

heat; heating; heating plant; heating system

Context example:

they have radiant heating

Hypernyms ("heating" is a kind of...):

utility (a facility composed of one or more pieces of equipment connected to or part of a structure and designed to provide a service such as heat or electricity or water or sewage disposal)

Meronyms (parts of "heating"):

boiler; steam boiler (sealed vessel where water is converted to steam)

radiator (heater consisting of a series of pipes for circulating steam or hot water to heat rooms or buildings)

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

central heating (a heating system in which air or water is heated at a central furnace and sent through the building via vents or pipes and radiators)

gas heat (heating system that burns natural gas)

panel heating (heating system consisting of wall or floor or baseboard or ceiling panels containing electric conductors or heating pipes)

steam heat; steam heating (a heating system in which steam is generated in boilers and piped to radiators)

Holonyms ("heating" is a part of...):

building; edifice (a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place)

Derivation:

heat (provide with heat)

 Context examples 

The new data suggest that Ceres has a weak interior, and that water and other light materials partially separated from rock during a heating phase early in its history.

(What's Inside Ceres? New Findings from Gravity Data, NASA)

Scientists believe that this heating at Jupiter's equator is just enough to create stability in the upper atmosphere, inhibiting the rise of warm air from within.

(Juno Solves 39-Year Old Mystery of Jupiter Lightning, NASA)

The authors note that if the ice shell was slightly thinner in the south to begin with, it would lead to runaway heating there over time.

(Powering Saturn's Active Ocean Moon, NASA)

These metals will make the atmosphere more opaque in the ultraviolet, which could be contributing to the heating of the upper atmosphere.

(Hubble Uncovers a ‘Heavy Metal’ Exoplanet Shaped Like a Football, NASA)

This process kills microorganisms through the high ultraviolet content of the light and the brief heating effects.

(High Intensity Light or Pulse Light Sterilization, NCI Thesaurus)

The second was of the heating of the charged particles.

(Messenger spots giant space weather effects at Mercury, NASA)

This warms the surface and produces rain that creates a thick layer of clouds, which acts like an umbrella to shield the surface from much of the solar heating.

(NASA Climate Modeling Suggests Venus May Have Been Habitable, NASA)

The researchers estimate that heating the soil could provide up to 4 percent of the needed pressure.

(Mars Terraforming Not Possible Using Present-Day Technology, NASA)

Aromatherapy infusion may also refer to the process of heating an herb in liquid to release the essential oils.

(Aromatherapy infusion, NCI Dictionary)

The volcanoes are caused by tidal heating, the result of gravitational forces from Jupiter and other moons.

(New Research Reveals Fluctuating Atmosphere of Jupiter’s Volcanic Moon, NASA)