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Convection   Listen
noun
Convection  n.  
1.
The act or process of conveying or transmitting.
2.
(Physics) A process of transfer or transmission, as of heat or electricity, by means of currents in liquids or gases, resulting from changes of temperature and other causes. "Liquids are generally heated by convection when heat is applied from below."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Convection" Quotes from Famous Books



... energy received by convection was small compared to that received by radiation; but it was ...
— Where I Wasn't Going • Walt Richmond

... AIR CARRIES HEAT BY CONVECTION. One of the poorest conductors of heat is air; that is, one particle of air can hardly give any of its heat to the next particle. But particles of air move around very easily and carry their heat with them; and they ...
— Common Science • Carleton W. Washburne

... nothing. It's not hot and it's not cold. When you're in the sunlight you get warm. It's better in the shade. You don't lose any heat by air convection, but radiation and sweat evaporation ...
— Sjambak • John Holbrook Vance

... as the bright stars and deep day-sky color indicated, every second night a total drop of one hundred and eighty degrees temperature could be secured by radiation to interstellar space—if there were no convection-currents, and ...
— Sand Doom • William Fitzgerald Jenkins

... that several ideas of permanent value were embodied in this comprehensive sketch of the solar constitution. The principal of these were; first, that the sun is a mainly gaseous body; secondly, that its stores of heat are rendered available at the surface by means of vertical convection-currents—by the bodily transport, that is to say, of intensely hot matter upward, and of comparatively cool matter downward; thirdly, that the photosphere is a surface of condensation, forming the limit set by the cold of space to this circulating process, and that a similar formation ...
— A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century - Fourth Edition • Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke



Words linked to "Convection" :   natural action, convect, natural process, activity, meteorology, temperature change



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