warming

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the application of heat to change something from a liquid to a gas; global warming
an increase in the average temperature of the earth's atmosphere (especially a sustained increase that causes climatic changes); induction heating
the heating of a conducting material caused by an electric current induced in it; overheating
excessive heating; radiant heating
heating a building by radiation from panels containing hot water or electrical heaters; melt, melting, thaw, thawing
the process whereby heat changes something from a solid to a liquid; decoction mashing, decoction process
(brewing) a process in which part of the mash is removed and boiled and then returned; meltdown, nuclear meltdown
severe overheating of the core of a nuclear reactor resulting in the core melting and radiation escaping

Type of:: temperature change
a process whereby the degree of hotness of a body (or medium) changes

Type of:: atmospheric condition, conditions, weather, weather condition
the atmospheric conditions that comprise the state of the atmosphere in terms of temperature and wind and clouds and precipitation

“a warming fire”

Synonyms: warm
having or producing a comfortable and agreeable degree of heat or imparting or maintaining heat

: hot
used of physical heat; having a high or higher than desirable temperature or giving off heat or feeling or causing a sensation of heat or burning

DEFINITIONS OF: warming