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superheat

superheat verb: to heat a liquid above its boiling point.

Verb

superheat (third-person singular simple present superheats, present participle superheating, simple past and past participle superheated)

  1. To heat a liquid above its boiling point
  2. To heat a vapour above its saturation point
  3. To heat too much, to overheat.
    • to superheat an oven

Noun

superheat (uncountable)

  1. The excess of temperature of a vapour above its temperature of saturation.
    • In addition to all this, the fluidity of the steam itself was much increased by high superheat, usually achieved by means of the Houlet superheater.1944 November and December, Lord Monkswell, “The French Four-Cylinder Compound Engine”, in Railway Magazine, page 326

Forms of superheat

third-person singular presentsuperheats
present participlesuperheating
past participlesuperheated
pastsuperheated

Origin of superheat

From super- + heat.

Words formed from superheat

Words that rhyme with superheat

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Questions about superheat

What does superheat mean?
Superheat means to heat a liquid above its boiling point.
What part of speech is superheat?
Superheat can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of superheat?
The past tense of superheat is superheated.

Words near superheat in the dictionary

  1. superhead
  2. superheads
  3. superhealthy
  4. superhearing
  5. superhearty
  6. superheat
  7. superheatable
  8. superheated
  9. superheater
  10. superheaters
  11. superheating

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