superheat

English

Etymology

super- + heat

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -iːt

Verb

superheat (third-person singular simple present superheats, present participle superheating, simple past and past participle superheated)

  1. To heat a liquid above its boiling point
  2. To heat a vapour above its saturation point
  3. To heat too much, to overheat.
    to superheat an oven

Derived terms

Noun

superheat (uncountable)

  1. The excess of temperature of a vapour above its temperature of saturation.
    • 1944 November and December, Lord Monkswell, “The French Four-Cylinder Compound Engine”, in Railway Magazine, page 326:
      In addition to all this, the fluidity of the steam itself was much increased by high superheat, usually achieved by means of the Houlet superheater.

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