Meanings
present singular third person foreheats · participle present foreheating · participle past foreheated · past foreheated
- datedtransitiveSynonym of preheat (“heat in advance”).
The photograph shows the special connections on the first heater section, whereby the milk is foreheated for the clarifier.
1920, The Milk Dealer - Volume 10 - Page 451 more example
The most recent development in this line is the combination of a foreheating apparatus employing oxygen and hydrogen, with a cutting jet of pure oxygen playing on the surface previously made red hot by this oxyhydrogen jet.
1908, American Machinist, Volume 31, Part 1 - Page 320Synonyms: preheat
Synonyms & antonyms
verbSynonym of preheat (“heat in advance”).
Origin
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