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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. the property of being warming;
[syn: calefaction, incalescence]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Calefaction \Cal`e*fac"tion\, n. [L. calefactio: cf. F. cal['e]faction.] 1. The act of warming or heating; the production of heat in a body by the action of fire, or by communication of heat from other bodies. [1913 Webster] 2. The state of being heated. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

calefaction n 1: the property of being warming [syn: calefaction, incalescence]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

21 Moby Thesaurus words for "calefaction": cooking, dielectric heating, electric heating, electronic heating, furnace heating, gas heating, heat exchange, heating, hot-air heating, increase of temperature, induction heating, insolation, oil heating, panel heating, radiant heating, recalescence, steam heating, superheating, tepefaction, torrefaction, warming