calefaction

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
calefaction
    n 1: the property of being warming [syn: {calefaction},
         {incalescence}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Calefaction \Cal`e*fac"tion\, n. [L. calefactio: cf. F.
   cal['e]faction.]
   1. The act of warming or heating; the production of heat in a
      body by the action of fire, or by communication of heat
      from other bodies.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. The state of being heated.
      [1913 Webster]
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
21 Moby Thesaurus words for "calefaction":
      cooking, dielectric heating, electric heating, electronic heating,
      furnace heating, gas heating, heat exchange, heating,
      hot-air heating, increase of temperature, induction heating,
      insolation, oil heating, panel heating, radiant heating,
      recalescence, steam heating, superheating, tepefaction,
      torrefaction, warming
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