Calefaction

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Calefaction \Cal`e*fac"tion\, n. [L. calefactio: cf. F.
     cal['e]faction.]
     1. The act of warming or heating; the production of heat in a
        body by the action of fire, or by communication of heat
        from other bodies.
        [1913 Webster]


  
     2. The state of being heated.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  calefaction
       n : the property of being warming [syn: {incalescence}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  21 Moby Thesaurus words for "calefaction":
     cooking, dielectric heating, electric heating, electronic heating,
     furnace heating, gas heating, heat exchange, heating,
     hot-air heating, increase of temperature, induction heating,
     insolation, oil heating, panel heating, radiant heating,
     recalescence, steam heating, superheating, tepefaction,
     torrefaction, warming