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heat shock

heat shock noun: the response of an organism to a rapid rise in temperature.

Noun

heat shock (countable and uncountable, plural heat shocks)

  1. The response of an organism to a rapid rise in temperature

heat shock meaning in Tamil

heat shock in Tamil

வெப்ப அதிர்ச்சி

Forms of heat shock

pluralheat shocks

Questions about heat shock

What does heat shock mean?
Heat shock means the response of an organism to a rapid rise in temperature.
What is heat shock in Tamil?
Heat shock in Tamil is வெப்ப அதிர்ச்சி. See Heat shock meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is heat shock?
Heat shock is a noun.
What is the plural of heat shock?
The plural of heat shock is heat shocks.

Words near heat shock in the dictionary

  1. heat resistant
  2. heat rub
  3. heat rubs
  4. heat shield
  5. heat shields
  6. heat shock
  7. heat shock protein
  8. heat shock proteins
  9. heat shrink
  10. heat shrinks
  11. heat sink

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Adapted from Wiktionary: heat shock (page history and authors); heat shock (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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