Thesaurus: heating

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1. p. pr. & vb. n. of Heat
2. a. That heats or imparts heat; promoting warmth or heat; exciting action; stimulating; as, heating medicines or applications.
3. n. the process of becoming warmer; a rising temperature
4. n. utility to warm a building
5. That heats or imparts heat; promoting warmth or heat; exciting action; stimulating; as, heating medicines or applications. Heating surface (Steam Boilers), the aggregate surface exposed to fire or to the heated products of combustion, esp. of all the plates or sheets that are exposed to water on their opposite surfaces; -- called also fire surface.
6. That heats or imparts heat; promoting warmth or heat; excitingaction; stimulating; as, heating medicines or applications. Heatingsurface (Steam Boilers), the aggregate surface exposed to fire or tothe heated products of combustion, esp. of all the plates or sheetsthat are exposed to water on their opposite surfaces; -- called alsofire surface.
7. n:100 n. the process of becoming warmer; a rising temperature