Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Freely permeable by heat.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having the property of transmitting radiant heat; diathermal; -- opposed to
athermanous .
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- adjective Having the property of
transmitting radiant heat ;diathermal .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Using the sources of heat before mentioned, and employing diathermanous lenses, or silvered minors, to render the rays from those sources parallel, the absorption of radiant heat was determined, first for the liquid layer, and then for its equivalent vaporous layer.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 365, December 30, 1882 Various
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Iron is said to be a diathermanous body (from dia, through, and thermo, I heat), meaning that it gets heated through and through, and accordingly contains a large quantity of real heat.
Literary Blunders; A chapter in the "History of Human Error" 1893
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Fanned by a constant updraught of ventilation between the kitchen and the chimneyflue, ignition was communicated from the faggots of precombustible fuel to polyhedral masses of bituminous coal, containing in compressed mineral form the foliated fossilised decidua of primeval forests which had in turn derived their vegetative existence from the sun, primal source of heat (radiant), transmitted through omnipresent luminiferous diathermanous ether.
Ulysses 2003
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(radiant), transmitted through omnipresent luminiferous diathermanous ether.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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Iron is said to be a diathermanous body (from _dia_, through, and
Literary Blunders Henry Benjamin Wheatley 1877
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