| NOUN | phenomenon | heat energy, heat | a form of energy that is transferred by a difference in temperature |
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| Meaning | A form of energy that is transferred by a difference in temperature. | |
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| Synonym | heat | |
| Narrower | geothermal energy | Energy derived from the heat in the interior of the earth |
| heat of dissociation | The heat required for a fluid substance to break up into simpler constituents | |
| heat of formation | The heat evolved or absorbed during the formation of one mole of a substance from its component elements | |
| heat of solution | The heat evolved or absorbed when one mole of a substance is dissolved in a large volume of a solvent | |
| latent heat, heat of transformation | heat absorbed or radiated during a change of phase at a constant temperature and pressure | |
| specific heat | The heat required to raise the temperature of one gram of a substance one degree centigrade | |
| Broader | energy, free energy | (physics) a thermodynamic quantity equivalent to the capacity of a physical system to do work |
| Spanish | calor, energía calorífica | |
| Catalan | calor, energia calorífica | |
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