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ther·mal (t̸hʉrməl)

adjective

  1. having to do with heat, hot springs, etc.
  2. warm or hot
  3. ☆ designating or of a loosely knitted material honeycombed with air spaces for insulation to help retain body heat thermal underwear

Etymology: Fr < Gr thermē, heat: see warm

noun

a rising column of warm air, caused by the uneven heating of the earth or sea by the sun

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thermal

modif.

warm, tepid, thermic, loosely knit; see hot 1.

thermal Usage Examples

Modifying Another Word

  • purely: However, as we have seen in our first example of the sandcastle, it has much wider implications than the purely thermal case.
  • overall: Thermal efficiency Overall thermal efficiency is around 30 % .
  • enough: At low temperatures, there is not enough thermal energy available to allow torsion angle changes, so the conformation becomes frozen in.

Modifies a noun

  • conductivity: In addition, due to cast iron's high degree of thermal conductivity, hot water does not hold its temperatures for very long.
  • insulation: The use of asbestos for thermal insulation was banned in 1986.
  • underwear: Police chiefs have now ordered a consignment of thermal underwear for officers who are feeling the cold.
  • comfort: It does not address issues of thermal comfort in the workplace.
  • expansion: Usually caused by abnormal thermal expansion in the combustion chamber.
  • equilibrium: These are all approximately in thermal equilibrium, the small deviations from which produce the weather.

Used with adjective complement

  • minimize: The process must be carefully controlled to maintain complete oxidation but to minimize thermal NOx formation, which is itself, a pollutant.
  • avoid: Thermafleece should overlap the wall insulation to avoid thermal bridging at the eaves.
  • invigorate: Yo Bubble Feet Treat Give your feet a treat after a hard week with these massaging and invigorating thermal wraps.
  • mean: Calculation 1: Original calculation: Mean thermal Jeans mass 1 solar mass, minimum object mass ~3 Jupiter masses.
  • prevent: Use to close cavities at openings, to prevent thermal bridging.