HEATING SYSTEM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does heating system mean? 

• HEATING SYSTEM (noun)
  The noun HEATING SYSTEM has 1 sense:

1. utility to warm a building

  Familiarity information: HEATING SYSTEM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEATING SYSTEM (noun)

Sense 1

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 system" 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 system"):

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 system"):

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 system" is a part of...):

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