superheating

English

Verb

superheating

  1. present participle and gerund of superheat

Noun

superheating (countable and uncountable, plural superheatings)

  1. The 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.
    • 1954 August, J. B. Snell, “The New Zealand Government Railways—2”, in Railway Magazine, page 561:
      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.

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