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heroic cooling

heroic cooling noun: techniques for dissipating high heat very quickly.

Noun

heroic cooling (uncountable)

  1. Techniques for dissipating high heat very quickly.
    • Plasma venturing beyond that is led into the divertor, where it strikes high-temperature materials with heroic cooling to dissipate the heat.2011, Francis Chen, An Indispensable Truth: How Fusion Power Can Save the Planet, page 287
    • The power wall refers to the inability to significantly increase the clock frequency of a processor (CPU) without heroic cooling measures.2012, Albert Y. Zomaya, Young Choon Lee, Energy-Efficient Distributed Computing Systems

Questions about heroic cooling

What does heroic cooling mean?
Heroic cooling means techniques for dissipating high heat very quickly.
What part of speech is heroic cooling?
Heroic cooling is a noun.

Words near heroic cooling in the dictionary

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  2. heroic
  3. Heroic Age
  4. heroic assumption
  5. heroic assumptions
  6. heroic cooling
  7. heroic couplet
  8. heroic couplets
  9. heroic dose
  10. heroic doses
  11. heroic epic

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