overheating (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the word *overheating*:
NOUN	process	overheating	excessive heating

overheating > pronunciation
Sounds	ow'verhhiy.tihng
Rhymes	abducting ... zoning: 2044 rhymes with ihng...

English > *overheating*: 1 sense > noun 1, process
Meaning	excessive heating.
Narrower	meltdown, nuclear meltdown	severe overheating of the core of a nuclear reactor resulting in the core melting and radiation escaping
Broader	heating, warming	The process of becoming warmer
Spanish	recalentamiento, sobrecalentamiento
Catalan	rescalfament, sobreescalfament
Verbs	overheat	get excessively and undesirably hot
Verbs	overheat	make excessively or undesirably hot

HyperDic: overheating