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What is "heat-resistant"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
heat-resistant
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
heat-resistant/stain-resistant/fire-resistant etc
▪ shock-resistant rubber
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Each brush has a heat-resistant handle with a rubber-neck grip for firm hold while you style.
▪ Made in heat-resistant glass, it comes with a cork mat.
▪ Minor cracks can be repaired with special heat-resistant mortar such as that supplied by Purimachos.
▪ Reaching 1, 200 seconds will require exotic heat-resistant alloys.
▪ This ensures that much of the direct sunlight falls on the underside, where the most heat-resistant surfaces are placed.
▪ Warriors in full armour paraded in the colossal hangar, its walls plated with slabs of heat-resistant mica.
Wiktionary
heat-resistant

a. resistant to but not wholly proof from the effects of fire or intense heat. alt. resistant to but not wholly proof from the effects of fire or intense heat.

Usage examples of "heat-resistant".

Just beneath the stationary eye of the top microcamera a hole had been punched in the heat-resistant plate.

The latest thing from Vishniac, designed in part by Spencer, and made of an intermetallic compound, chiefly gamma titanium aluminum, rendered superplastic for the manufacture of heat-resistant engine parts as well as the exterior skin, which dimmed a bit as they rose higher and it cooled.

Its chassis was of heat-resistant molybdenum steel and titanium-alloy, mounted on six titanium-alloy legs for traversing terrain more wildly irregular than any that could be found in England or anywhere else on Earth.

Irreverently he wondered if the Thek was sitting on it, had ingested it, or perhaps created a heat-resistant pouch in which it could keep bits and pieces of fragile alien manufacture.