Definitions for: Heating


[n] utility to warm a building; "the heating system wasn't working"; "they have radiant heating"
[n] the process of becoming warmer; a rising temperature
[adj] serving to heat; "a heating pad is calefactory"



Webster (1913) Definition: Heat"ing, a.
That heats or imparts heat; promoting warmth or heat;
exciting action; stimulating; as, heating medicines or
applications.

Heating surface (Steam Boilers), the aggregate surface
exposed to fire or to the heated products of combustion,
esp. of all the plates or sheets that are exposed to water
on their opposite surfaces; -- called also fire surface.

Synonyms: calefactive, calefactory, heat, heating plant, heating system, hot, warming

See Also: boiler, boiling, building, central heating, edifice, gas heat, induction heating, melt, melting, overheating, panel heating, radiant heating, radiator, steam boiler, steam heat, steam heating, temperature change, thaw, thawing, utility

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