Crossword clues for thermic
thermic
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Thermic \Ther"mic\, a. [Gr. ? heat.] Of or pertaining to heat; due to heat; thermal; as, thermic lines.
Thermic balance. See Bolometer.
Thermic fever (Med.), the condition of fever produced by sunstroke. See Sunstroke.
Thermic weight. (Mech.) Same as Heat weight, under Heat.
Wiktionary
a. Of, related to, or associated with heat; thermal.
WordNet
adj. relating to or associated with heat; "thermal movements of molecules"; "thermal capacity"; "thermic energy"; "the caloric effect of sunlight" [syn: thermal, caloric] [ant: nonthermal]
Wikipedia
thermic may refer to one or more of these topics related to heat:
- a past synonym for thermal (also, thermics was a synonym for thermodynamics)
- the thermic effect of food (TEF)
- the thermic reaction of skin, a topic of 19th century hydrotherapy, but the phrase is also used more recently in other contexts
- thermic reaction may refer to a triggered change in body temperature
- thermic reaction or thermic process can refer to a chemical reaction that may turn out to be exothermic or endothermic
- the suffix -thermic, as in the following list of thermic inorganic reactions involving chemical reduction. (Highly thermic reactions are those requiring or producing a large amount of heat.)
- Aluminothermic reaction, the thermite reaction being a prominent example
- Calciothermic reaction
- Carbothermic reaction
- Silicothermic reaction
- thermic lance
- thermic component, thermic composition, thermic effect or thermic reaction may refer to a near-explosive property
- thermic reaction or thermic binding can refer to biochemical processes
Usage examples of "thermic".
He talked himself along and was still muttering when a gray bulkhead appeared slap in front of his face and he could swing her down and lean her against the last saddle, while he set up the thermic lance to cut a way through the hatch.
I was afraid to try the effect of more liberal watering, the more so that already the congelation of moisture upon the glasses from the internal air, dry as the latter had been kept, was a sensible annoyance--an annoyance which would have become an insuperable trouble had I not taken so much pains, by directing the thermic currents upon the walls, to keep the internal temperature, in so far as comfort would permit--it had now fallen to 4 deg.
The gun-metal sky lightened and glowed red along the horizon until, like a thermic lance, the sun tore a white-hot hole in it.
But all he could see were images of tower cranes and thermic lances and sixteen-ton skip-loaders.
The other night he told me OPSCOM had asked him to supply a dozen or more thermic lance burners - presumably for safe-cutting.
In it was a pile of equipment, including oxygen cylinders, a thermic lance holder, bundles of lances, some tubular scaffolding, a block and tackle, a tarpaulin, a couple of steel-wire nets and a steel T-bar with folding arms.
He got Jock to give a brief explanation of thermic cutting and boring, then himself explained about the security precautions and the closed-circuit camera scanning the strong-room.
Another signal and they started unloading the equipment -he and Jock the oxygen cylinder, thermic lances and other gear, including the guns, Eddie and Joseph the tarpaulin, tubular scaffolding, and the block and tackle.
The fumes given off by thermic boring were poisonous - not that there was much danger in the open air.
Jock adjusted the flame to a hard blue and held it to the point of the thermic lance.
Instead of weak squares and backward pawns all he saw when he looked at the board was the white-hot flare of a thermic lance liquefying all that steel and concrete over his head.
Once he had cut about three inches Jock followed with the thermic lance, moving the point slowly along the cut, just behind the incandescent spot made by the blowlamp.
But such nerve separated from its natural termini, isolated from the rest of the organism, gives no sign of life when excited, either in the shape of chemical or of thermic changes, and it is only by means of an electrical change that we can ascertain whether or no it is alive .
It could be cut open with a thermic lance, but the apparatus was cumbersome and the heat would destroy all non-fireproof contents.
Everything came to a halt until Hiroshito discovered thermic induction, and we were able to elevate temperature almost indefinitely through a process similar to the induction of high electric potentials by means of transformers and the Ruhmkorff coil.