different between heating vs calefaction

English

Etymology

heat +? -ing

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?hi?t??/
• Rhymes: -i?t??

Noun

heating (countable and uncountable, plural heatings)

1. A system that raises the temperature of a room or building. Compare heater.
2. The act of making something hot.

   The crucible was subjected to several heatings.

Derived terms

• central heating

Translations

Adjective

heating (comparative more heating, superlative most heating)

1. Causing heat.

Translations

Verb

heating

1. present participle of heat

Anagrams

• gahnite, gaineth, haeting

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin calefacti?, calefacti?nem.

Noun

calefaction (countable and uncountable, plural calefactions)

1. The act of warming or heating.
2. The state or condition of being heated.

Quotations

• 1922, James Joyce, Ulysses, episode 17:

  What advantages were possessed by an occupied, as distinct from an unoccupied bed? The removal of nocturnal solitude, the superior quality of human (mature female) to inhuman (hotwaterjar) calefaction.

References

• Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.
• Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary, 1987-1996.

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin calefacti?, calefacti?nem.

Noun

calefaction f (oblique plural calefactions, nominative singular calefaction, nominative plural calefactions)

1. calefaction (production of heat)

Related terms

• chaufer
• chalor
• chaloir / chaleir
• eschalfer

Descendants

• French: caléfaction