Calefaction

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The act or operation of warming or heating; the production of heat in a body by the action of fire, or by the communication of heat from other bodies.
  • noun. The state of being heated.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. The state of being heated.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The act of warming or heating.
  • noun. The state or condition of being heated.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the property of being warming
  • Word Usage
    "Charleton appeals to the explanation of such phenomena as rarefaction and condensation, the differences in "degrees of Gravity" of bodies, and the numerous ways in which bodies can interpenetrate at the micro-level in terms of solubility, absorption, calefaction, and diverse chemical reactions."
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