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Trombe wall

Trombe wall noun: a wall built on the winter sun side of a building with a glass external layer and a high mass internal layer separated by a layer of air, so as to absorb heat during sunlit hours of winter and slowly release it overnight.

Noun

Trombe wall (plural Trombe walls)

  1. A wall built on the winter sun side of a building with a glass external layer and a high mass internal layer separated by a layer of air, so as to absorb heat during sunlit hours of winter and slowly release it overnight.

Forms of Trombe wall

pluralTrombe walls

Origin of Trombe wall

Named after French engineer Félix Trombe.

Questions about Trombe wall

What does Trombe wall mean?
Trombe wall means a wall built on the winter sun side of a building with a glass external layer and a high mass internal layer separated by a layer of air, so as to absorb heat during sunlit hours of winter and slowly release it overnight.
What part of speech is Trombe wall?
Trombe wall is a noun.
What is the plural of Trombe wall?
The plural of Trombe wall is Trombe walls.

Words near Trombe wall in the dictionary

  1. tromba marina
  2. tromba marinist
  3. tromba marinists
  4. trombas marina
  5. trombe
  6. Trombe wall
  7. Trombe walls
  8. trombenick
  9. trombenicks
  10. trombenik
  11. trombeniks

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