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(meteorology) the vertical movement of heat or other properties by massive motion within the atmosphere
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convection
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES convection oven COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN current ▪ This keeps the solution flowing smoothly and, together with keeping the solution at 2°C, stops convection currents building up. ▪ This is how a convection current ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Convection is the movement of groups of molecules within fluids such as liquids or gases , and within rheids . Convection takes place through advection , diffusion or both. Convection cannot take place in solids because neither bulk current flows nor significant ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Convection \Con*vec"tion\, n. [L. convectio, fr. convehere to bring together; con- + vehere to carry.] The act or process of conveying or transmitting. (Physics) A process of transfer or transmission, as of heat or electricity, by means of currents in liquids ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The process of conveying something. 2 (context physics English) The transmission of heat in a fluid or gas by the circulation of currents. 3 (context meteorology English) The vertical movement of heat and moisture, especially by updrafts and downdrafts ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the transfer of heat through a fluid (liquid or gas) caused by molecular motion (meteorology) the vertical movement of heat or other properties by massive motion within the atmosphere
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1620s, from Latin convectionem (nominative convectio ) "the act of carrying," noun of action from past participle stem of convehere "to carry together," from com- "together" (see com- ) + vehere "to carry" (see vehicle ). Related: Convective . Convection ...
Usage examples of convection.
Convection carried incandescent gas and pumice clasts to a height of 28 km.
Convection carried incandescant gas and pumice clasts to a height of 28 km.
Drawing their palms over grass, goldenrod, and white alyssum, they walked toward the common line, fourteen of them, their yellow silk cassocks whipped by wind and fiery convections, the five snakes about each of their throats outstretched, like the spokes of a candelabra, searching every direction.
Causes become occasions of convections and confluences, places where the currents meet.
The spheres and contour lines imploded in sparkles of pixels, exposing the native panorama of the convective cavern, a complex, ghostly overlay of flux tubes, p-modes and convection cells.
But a fifth of the way down from the surface the pressure was lessened enough so that the gases could move about a bit—which is to say, convectively, and so it was called the convection zone.
But there would be nothing, beyond the increasing discordance of a craft being shattered by crude convection.
The mesoscale convection is shaping up, the Bermuda High, the jet stream.
The dust and raw melange were being sucked down, turned over by convection currents and chemical reactions.
The captain of the bridge gun crew sprayed the bore of his gun with compressed gas to allow convection cooling.
Orbiting twenty million kilometres ahead of the starships, a city was flying unperturbably above the slow-churning blooms of the convection currents which contoured the red giant’s surface.
With luck, it had reached the cloud wall and was sowing the rising leg of the convection cell with tons of reflective chaff.
At a distance of only 150 million kilometers, the sun had the power to boil oceans and set up vast convection cells.
Paul's captor, constructed of the Virtual particle sets of the seething vacuum, resembled its forebears - the odd, vast creatures who had spawned as constructs of convection cells in a boiling ocean - as a laser rifle resembles a piece of chipped stone.
In the convection zone Wan-To could cavort freely, letting himself be carried along by the convection cells when he chose, twisting their paths into amusing tangles when that seemed more interesting.