thermal
thermal
Definition
ther·mal (t̸hʉr′məl)
adjective
- having to do with heat, hot springs, etc.
- warm or hot
- ☆ 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
thermal
Synonyms
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.
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