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heatsunk

heatsunk is the past participle 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 heatsunk

What is heatsunk the past participle of?
Heatsunk is the past participle of heatsink.

Words near heatsunk in the dictionary

  1. heatspreader
  2. heatspreaders
  3. heatstable
  4. heatstroke
  5. heatstrokes
  6. heatsunk
  7. Heatter
  8. heatwave
  9. heatwaves
  10. Heatwole
  11. Heatwoles

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