Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To heat excessively; overheat.
- transitive verb To heat (steam or other vapor not in contact with its own liquid) beyond its saturation point at a given pressure.
- transitive verb To heat (a liquid) above its boiling point without causing vaporization.
- noun The amount by which a vapor is superheated.
- noun The heat imparted during the process of superheating.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To heat to an extreme degree or to a very high temperature; specifically, to heat, as steam, apart from contact with water, until it resembles a perfect gas.
- noun Excess of temperature of a vapor above the temperature at which it is saturated.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The increase of temperature communicated to steam by superheating it.
- transitive verb To heat too much, to overheat.
- transitive verb (Steam Engine) To heat, as steam, apart from contact with water, until it resembles a perfect gas.
- transitive verb To heat (a liquid) above its boiling point without converting it into vapor.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
heat aliquid above itsboiling point - verb To heat a
vapour above itssaturation point
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Examples
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The steam will still be superheated but maybe 580 PSIG at 575F superheat which is about 1288-13. 2.
CR4 - Recent Forum Threads and Blog Entries sovan chatterjee 2010
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Over 1,000 mirrors, each "about half the size of a tennis court", will be used to reflect sunlight to "superheat" water at a central tower.
Green Blog 2009
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The result: Water can "superheat," without boiling.
unknown title 2009
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It of course set up, so I would put a warning about water discounting, but it didn't superheat or anything - its luscious stuff.
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It of course set up, so I would put a warning about water discounting, but it didn't superheat or anything - its luscious stuff.
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The principal was simple – superheat a packet of gas to a plasma state and fire it at ultra-sonic speeds at a target whose armor would be of little use against a substance that broke the bonds of matter at a subatomic level.
Firefly Ship Works Ltd. » Blog Archive » Stray Dogs, Chapter One: An Unexpected Gift 2009
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The microwaves superheat the air right next to a target, and the vacuum created by the sudden compression of the gas does the job of pushing the packet straight through the target for you.
Firefly Ship Works Ltd. » Blog Archive » Stray Dogs, Chapter One: An Unexpected Gift 2009
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The E.V. Gray Engine and the Geet Processor both use a spark to superheat into combustibles.
Suppression Suppressed. Paranoia, conspiracy theories and the truth about free energy. 2008
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It uses parabolic troughs that focus heat onto tubes containing synthetic oil, which is then used to superheat steam for turbines.
Hot as the Sun James Killus 2008
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After the second charge is completely melted, refining operations take place to check and correct the steel chemistry and superheat the melt above its freezing temperature in preparation for tapping.
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ecbrenner commented on the word superheat
"1 a : to heat (a liquid) above the boiling point without converting into vapor b : to heat (a vapor not in contact with its own liquid) so as to cause to remain free from suspended liquid droplets ." --Merriam-Webster Unabridged
April 14, 2009