Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To transfer (heat) by convection.
- intransitive verb To undergo convection.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- verb to circulate hot air by convection, as of certain ovens.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To carry or convey; to move (a warm fluid) upward through a cooler fluid, to transfer heat or a fluid by convection.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb circulate hot air by convection
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Air in free fall does not convect, which means that everything that heats up has to be cooled by fans; the space shuttle is LOUD inside.
8/4/08: Launch Pad, day 5 prof_brotherton 2008
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And even if you did find a way to create such blast furnace like conditions, the fact of the matter is that you would convect a significant portion of the heat away, just like what happens in a fireplace; in order to let fresh air in, you have to let the heated, oxygen-depleted air escape.
Here's another reason the 9/11 fire-mediated collapse theory has to be wrong. 2007
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These storm winds convect heat both latent and sensible from the surface to the upper atmosphere.
Hansen and Schmidt: Predicting the Past? « Climate Audit 2006
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But the atmosphere will generally lose heat at the top, and will convect and radiate to continue to do so, and so will continue to cool over a long period.
Hits « Climate Audit 2005
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Discuss how radiation can pass through glazing materials at different rates depending on the material, how air can convect heat through screening material and the importance or unimportance of insulation materials to stop conductive heat transfer.
Chapter 6 1982
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This land surface reflected energy back into the atmosphere rather than absorbing it, lessening the amount of energy on the land surface available to do things like convect water vapor to form clouds and thus rain.
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With totally enclosed inverters such as the SMV, there are two options to get rid of the heat losses within the drive - either make the drive physically bigger to convect the heat away, or use a cooling fan.
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With totally enclosed inverters such as the SMV, there are two options to get rid of the heat losses within the drive - either make the drive physically bigger to convect the heat away, or use a cooling fan.
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