thermal
Part of speech: adj
noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: business
climatology
construction
government
manufacturing
masonry
meteorology
military
natural-sciences
nautical
politics
stone
transport
war
Etymology: From French thermal, from New Latin *thermalis, from Ancient Greek θέρμη (thérmē, “heat”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰer- (“to heat, warm”).
Inflected forms:
form: thermals
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: thermals
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: thermaling
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
present
form: thermalling
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
present
form: thermaled
pos: verb
tags: US
participle
past
form: thermaled
pos: verb
tags: US
past
form: thermalled
pos: verb
tags: UK
participle
past
form: thermalled
pos: verb
tags: UK
past
Senses:
gloss: Pertaining to heat or temperature.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems—surgical foam, a thermal gel depot, a microcapsule or biodegradable polymer beads.
gloss: Providing efficient insulation so as to keep the body warm.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Caused or brought about by heat.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: Having a rough finish from treatment with a blowtorch.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
gloss: A column of rising air in the lower atmosphere created by uneven heating of a planet's surface.
pos: noun
examples: The hawk had mounted its thermal by the time he got to the yard, flapping its wings violently against the updraft.
gloss: FLIR.
pos: noun
gloss: thermocline.
pos: noun
gloss: To create a rough finish on stone by treating it with a high-temperature blowtorch.
pos: verb
gloss: To fly an unpowered aircraft in a thermal (column of rising air).
pos: verb
Synonyms: thermal column
Related words: therm
thermo-
Derived words: accumulated thermal unit
allothermal
anisothermal
athermal
autothermal
biothermal
bithermal
British thermal unit
carbothermal
chronothermal
coefficient of thermal expansion
cryothermal
dendrothermal
diathermal
differential thermal analysis
dynamothermal
electrothermal
endothermal
epithermal
eurythermal
exothermal
geothermal
gravithermal
gravothermal
gyrothermal
haematothermal
hematothermal
heterothermal
homeothermal
homothermal
hyperthermal
hypothermal
isothermal
macrothermal
magnetothermal
mechanothermal
megathermal
mesothermal
microthermal
mucothermal
multithermal
nanothermal
nonthermal
non-thermal
nuclear-thermal rocket
optothermal
oxythermal
photothermal
pluviothermal
poikilothermal
polythermal
prethermal
pseudothermal
radiothermal
recuperative thermal oxidizer
regenerative thermal oxidizer
solar thermal collector
stenothermal
subthermal
superthermal
suprathermal
synthermal
Thermageddon
thermal analysis
thermal break
thermal camera
thermal coal
thermal comfort
thermal compound
thermal conductance
thermal conductivity
thermal contact
thermal credit
thermal cycler
thermal death time
thermal design power
thermal desorption
thermal energy
thermal gel
thermalgravimetric
thermal grease
thermal horsepower
thermal imaging
thermalisation
thermalise
thermalism
thermality
thermalization
thermalize
thermal lance
thermal lithosphere
thermally
thermal mass
thermal neutron
thermal noise
thermal oxidizer
thermal paper
thermal paste
thermal printer
thermal pulse
thermal radiation
thermal relaxation time
thermal rocket
thermal sensation
thermal shock
thermal spring
thermal turbulence
thermal underwear
thermal unit
thermistor
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