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heat energy

n. a form of energy that is transferred by a difference in temperature [syn: heat]

Usage examples of "heat energy".

Since our generator is to run on heat energy, it will be rather chilly inside if we don't remedy that.

With the heat energy from the dancer crash dissipating, cold wind moved in from the plain and brought with it the sting of metal sand shaved from the mountains.

That was because the Frost Giants lived on heat energy, and when they fed, they withdrew all the ambient energy from their surroundings.

Absolute zero: The lowest possible temperature, at which substances contain no heat energy.

The lowest possible temperature, at which substances contain no heat energy.

The blob condenses further, its gravitational energy gets traded for heat energy, and its temperature goes up fast.

With the heat energy from the dancer crash dissi-pating, cold wind moved in from the plain and brought with it the sting of metal sand shaved from the moun-tains.

His muscles turn heat energy into motion the same way our molecular beams do!

Next to emerge from the explosion - the truck was now part of it - was light and heat energy.

If we try to heterodyne his radio -- presto -- it has twice the heat energy anyway, though we might reduce it to a frequency that penetrated the ship instead of all staying in it.

It was a piece of the heat shield, melting off the base of the craft, carrying the lethal heat energy away from the capsule.

That was sunstorm weather, predicted to follow the huge injection of heat energy into the atmosphere.

And the lander contained sinks, stores of chemicals like hydrates of lithium nitrate, which, evaporating, could absorb much of theferocious incoming heat energy.