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Convection   Listen
noun
Convection  n.  
1.
The act or process of conveying or transmitting.
2.
(Physics) A process of transfer or transmission, as of heat or electricity, by means of currents in liquids or gases, resulting from changes of temperature and other causes. "Liquids are generally heated by convection when heat is applied from below."





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"Convection" Quotes from Famous Books



... inner and outer skins of the Shed. There had to be two skins because the Shed was too big to be ventilated properly, and the hot desert sunshine on one side would have made "weather" inside. There'd have been a convection-current motion of the air in the enclosed space, and minor whirlwinds, and there could even be miniature thunderclouds and lightning. Joe remembered reading that such things had happened in a shed built for Zeppelins ...
— Space Platform • Murray Leinster
... energy received by convection was small compared to that received by radiation; but it was ...
— Where I Wasn't Going • Walt Richmond


Words linked to "Convection" :   natural action, action, convect, temperature change


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