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heatsinking

heatsinking is the present participle and gerund of heatsink.

Meaning of heatsink

Verb

heatsink (third-person singular simple present heatsinks, present participle heatsinking, simple past heatsinked, past participle heatsinked or heatsunk)

  1. (transitive) To fit with a heat sink.
    • It was necessary to heatsink the device through the center conductor of the coax thereby producing a total thermal resistance from the active layer to the ambient of almost 50°C/watt.1971, Joseph Stewart Bravman, Thermal effects in the operation of GaAs transferred electron microwave oscillators, page 138

Questions about heatsinking

What is heatsinking the present participle and gerund of?
Heatsinking is the present participle and gerund of heatsink.

Words near heatsinking in the dictionary

  1. heatshocking
  2. heatshocks
  3. heatsick
  4. heatsink
  5. heatsinked
  6. heatsinking
  7. heatsinks
  8. heatspike
  9. heatspikes
  10. heatspot
  11. heatspots

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