1.
[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