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The property of being warming
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calefaction
Word definitions for calefaction in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Calefaction \Cal`e*fac"tion\, n. [L. calefactio: cf. F. cal['e]faction.] The act of warming or heating; the production of heat in a body by the action of fire, or by communication of heat from other bodies. The state of being heated.
Wikipedia
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Calefaction comes from the Latin calor , meaning "heated", and facere , "to make". Generally, that is what the term means: to heat, or make heated. In the modern sciences, the term calefaction shows up occasionally in relation to the fields of cryogenics ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the property of being warming [syn: incalescence ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of warming or heating. 2 The state or condition of being heated.
Usage examples of calefaction.
Is it possible that in ceasing to be that first stone, and at the moment of becoming another, it does not feel its own calefaction, and with it the imminence of its own death?