superheat
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -iːt
Verb
superheat (third-person singular simple present superheats, present participle superheating, simple past and past participle superheated)
- To heat a liquid above its boiling point
- To heat a vapour above its saturation point
- To heat too much, to overheat.
- to superheat an oven
Derived terms
Noun
superheat (uncountable)
- 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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