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self-cooling

self-cooling adjective: able to prevent itself from overheating.

Adjective

self-cooling (not comparable)

  1. Able to prevent itself from overheating.
    • A thermoelectric self-cooling system with forced air cooling based on a finned plate heat sink (case-a) and a water cooling based on a microchannel heat sink (case-b) is evaluated through a thermodynamic model.2021 May 7, M. Di Capua H , Wolfram Jahn, “Performance assessment of thermoelectric self-cooling systems for electronic devices”, in Applied Thermal Engineering, volume 193, →DOI
    • Previous attempts at designing self-cooling microchips have largely relied on a two-pronged approach, involving designing the cooling elements separately from the electronic elements, and then combining after the initial fabrication process.2024 February 20, Sarah Wells, “Self-cooling microchip provides a tiny solution to a giant problem”, in Inverse

Origin of self-cooling

From self- + cooling.

Questions about self-cooling

What does self-cooling mean?
Self-cooling means able to prevent itself from overheating.
What part of speech is self-cooling?
Self-cooling is an adjective.

Words near self-cooling in the dictionary

  1. self-controls
  2. self-convicted
  3. self-conviction
  4. self-cooker
  5. self-cookers
  6. self-cooling
  7. self-correct
  8. self-corrected
  9. self-correcting
  10. self-correction
  11. self-corrects

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