Meanings
verb
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of superheat
nounsuperheating (countable and uncountable, plural superheatings)
plural superheatings
- countableuncountableThe heating of a substance above a temperature at which a change of state normally occurs, without it occurring; especially the heating of a liquid above its boiling point.
Superheating, first introduced with the "Abs", stopped further development in compounding, in New Zealand as elsewhere, and the "Abs" succeeded in dealing with the growing traffic unaided for more than a decade.
1954 August, J. B. Snell, “The New Zealand Government Railways—2”, in Railway Magazine, page 561
Translations
German Überhitzung
- Überhitzung1. The heating of a substance above a temperature at which a change of state normally occurs.
Japanese 過熱
- 過熱1. The heating of a substance above a temperature at which a change of state normally occurs.
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