OVERHEATING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does overheating mean? 

• OVERHEATING (noun)
  The noun OVERHEATING has 1 sense:

1. excessive heating

  Familiarity information: OVERHEATING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OVERHEATING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Excessive heating

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

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

heating; warming (the process of becoming warmer; a rising temperature)

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

meltdown; nuclear meltdown (severe overheating of the core of a nuclear reactor resulting in the core melting and radiation escaping)

Derivation:

overheat (get excessively and undesirably hot)

overheat (make excessively or undesirably hot)

 Context examples 

Issue associated with the device producing high temperatures, such that its operation is compromised (e.g. overheating that produces melting of components or automatic shutdown).

(Overheating of Medical Device or Device Component, Food and Drug Administration)

By eliminating the movement of charge, any such device would need less power and be less prone to overheating – removing some of the most significant obstacles to further improving computer efficiency.

(Certain organic semiconducting materials can transport spin faster than they conduct charge, University of Cambridge)

Samsung offered replacement units to all of its customers, before reports resurfaced of overheating with the new devices, raising fresh doubts about the firm's quality control abilities

(Samsung Ends Production of Problem-Plagued Galaxy Note 7, Voanews)

South Korean electronics giant Samsung says it will no longer manufacture its troubled Galaxy Note 7 smartphone after numerous reports around the globe of overheating.

(Samsung Ends Production of Problem-Plagued Galaxy Note 7, Voanews)