Radiator

3 definitions found

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

  Radiator \Ra"di*a`tor\ (r[=a]"d[i^]*[=a]`t[~e]r), n.
     1. That which radiates or emits rays, whether of light or
        heat; especially, that part of a heating apparatus from
        which the heat is radiated or diffused; as, a steam
        radiator.
        [1913 Webster]


  
     2. Any of various devices for cooling an internal substance
        by radiation, as a system of rings on a gun barrel for
        cooling it, or a nest of tubes with large radiating
        surface for cooling circulating water, as in an
        automobile.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  
     3. (Wireless Teleg.) An oscillator.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  radiator
       n 1: any object that radiates energy
       2: heater consisting of a series of pipes for circulating steam
          or hot water to heat rooms or buildings
       3: a mechanism consisting of a metal honeycomb through which
          hot fluids circulate; heat is transferred from the fluid
          through the honeycomb to the airstream that is created
          either by the motion of the vehicle or by a fan

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

  68 Moby Thesaurus words for "radiator":
     AM transmitter, Bunsen burner, Dutch oven, FM transmitter,
     RT transmitter, alpha radiator, amateur transmitter, beacon,
     bedpan, beta radiator, bloom heater, brazier, brick oven,
     calefactory, car heater, defroster, dielectric heater,
     dielectric preheater, electric blanket, electric heater,
     electronic heater, fan marker, fireless heater, fission products,
     fluorescent paint, foot warmer, forge, gamma radiator, gas log,
     geyser, heat lamp, high-frequency heater, hot-water bag,
     hot-water bottle, hot-water heater, induction heater,
     infrared heater, infrared lamp, ingot heater, iron heater,
     kerosene heater, kiln, microphone, orchard heater, oven, preheater,
     radio beacon, radio range beacon, radio transmitter,
     radio-frequency heater, radioactive waste, radiocarbon,
     radiocopper, radioelement, radioiodine, radioisotope,
     radiomicrophone, radiosonde, radiothorium, radium dial,
     radium paint, register, sun lamp, tracer, tracer atom,
     tracer element, transceiver, transmitter