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Relating to heat
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thermal
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN conductivity ▪ The most obvious differences are the lower density and thermal conductivity of plastics compared with glass. ▪ The relatively static lattice in a diamond ensures that the scattering is at a minimum ...
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
A thermal column (or thermal ) is a column of rising air in the lower altitudes of Earth's atmosphere , a form of atmospheric updraft . Thermals are created by the uneven heating of Earth's surface from solar radiation , and are an example of convection ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Pertaining to heat or temperature. n. (context meteorology English) A column of rise air in the lower atmosphere created by uneven heating of Earth's surface.
Usage examples of thermal.
Edwards had designed the special instrumentation for the Barracuda and the Bluefin that monitored the thermal variations in the water surrounding the submarine, giving the skipper a constant readout of temperature differentials.
Piffelheimer had a perfect opportunity to expound on the value of perfect thermal insulation, but she decided to stay silent.
They had quickly harnessed the hydropower to run their machines and even tapped the thermal flow beneath for added resources.
There is the usual gleaming white oversuit - the thermal micrometeorite garment - with the lower legs and overshoes scuffed and stained with Tycho dust.
When the sun is most spotted its total light may be reduced by one-thousandth part, although it is by no means certain that its outgiving of thermal radiations is then reduced.
Lieutenant Arkadi Papyrin watched the thermal imaging down-link terminal from the RORSAT satellite currently making a pass over the Japanese north island of Hokkaido and the Soya Strait.
The kayak and its parasail bucked and rocked in sudden downdrafts and elevator-quick lifts of thermals.
The strong thermals rising along the cliff face struck the kite like a rising elevator and I was slammed upward, the control bar swinging back against my upper chest hard enough to knock the wind out of me, and the parawing swooped, climbed, and tried to do a lazy loop with a radius of sixty or seventy meters.
At the same instant, my own parawing peeled off the thermal and was swept away to the east.
Deputy Presser removed two more pages from the file, slick old-fashioned thermal fax pages this time, and slid them across to Dale.
We use ASTER technology, Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer instruments built into various satellite platforms to track groupings of gases associated with decomposition.
Anakin said, resisting the urge to comm 2-1S about the odds of all three escaping the thermal detonator.
His blunted, part-blinded sensorium translated their speech into waning thermal codes.
Some silicates in the collapsed thermal vent near the recovered material also exhibit stratified spongiform structures highly stromatolitic in appearance, the strata two magnitudes finer than that observed in Terran samples.
She had made good time, only once falling short of the thermal she was aiming at, having to glide sunward and find another and then backtrack.