Heat vs Thermotics - What's the difference?
heat | thermotics |
(uncountable) Thermal energy.
* 2007 , James Shipman, Jerry Wilson, Aaron Todd, An Introduction to Physical Science: Twelfth Edition , pages 106–108:
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, title= (uncountable) The condition or quality of being hot.
(uncountable) An attribute of a spice that causes a burning sensation in the mouth.
(uncountable) A period of intensity, particularly of emotion.
(uncountable) An undesirable amount of attention.
(uncountable, slang) The police.
(uncountable, slang) One or more firearms.
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(countable, baseball) A fastball.
(uncountable) A condition where a mammal is aroused sexually or where it is especially fertile and therefore eager to mate.
(countable) A preliminary race, used to determine the participants in a final race
(countable) One cycle of bringing metal to maximum temperature and working it until it is too cool to work further.
(countable) A hot spell.
(uncountable) Heating system; a system that raises the temperature of a room or building.
(uncountable) The output of a heating system.
To cause an increase in temperature of an object or space; to cause something to become hot (often with "up").
To excite or make hot by action or emotion; to make feverish.
* Shakespeare:
To excite ardour in; to rouse to action; to excite to excess; to inflame, as the passions.
* Dryden:
To arouse, to excite (sexually).
(archaic) that branch of physics dealing with the science of heat
* 1837 , William Whewell,
* 1895 , James W. Steele, Steam Steel and Electricity , p.59, Kessinger Publishing, 2004 ISBN 1419149253.
* 2010 , Pascal Le Masson, Benoît Weil, Armand Hatchuel, Stategic Management of Innovation and Design , p.62, Cambridge University Press, 2010 ISBN 0521182433.
(archaic) thermodynamics
As nouns the difference between heat and thermotics
is that heat is (military) high explosive antitank: a munition using a high explosive shaped charge to breach armour while thermotics is (archaic) that branch of physics dealing with the science of heat.heat
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) hete, from (etyl) .Noun
- Heat' and temperature, although different, are intimately related. [...] For example, suppose you added equal amounts of ' heat to equal masses of iron and aluminum. How do you think their temperatures would change?if the temperature of the iron increased by 100 C°, the corresponding temperature change in the aluminum would be only 48 C°.
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Derived terms
* heat capacity * heat death * heat engine * heat exchanger * heat lamp * heatproof * heat pump * heat rash * heat-resistant * heat-seeking * heat shield * heat sink * heatstroke * heat treatment * heatwave * in heat * on heatEtymology 2
From (etyl) heten, from (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- I'll heat up the water.
- Pray, walk softly; do not heat your blood.
- A noble emulation heats your breast.
- The massage heated her up.
Synonyms
* stoke * warm up * heat up; hot up,Anagrams
* English causative verbsthermotics
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Noun
(-)History of the Inductive Sciences, p.465, London: J.W. Parker, 1837.
- I employ the term Thermotics , to include all the doctrines respecting heat, which have hitherto been established on proper scientific grounds.
- Electricity seems destined to annex the whole field, not merely of optics, but probably also of thermotics .
- Today, a large amount of scientific knowledge must be produced to design new products, not only in sectors such as pharmaceuticals but also in aeronautics and in seemingly more traditional disciplines such as thermotics .