convection oven

American

noun

a gas, electric, or microwave oven equipped with a fan that circulates and intensifies the heat, thereby decreasing the normal cooking time.

Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

convection ovens

plural

Etymology

Origin of convection oven

First recorded in 1970–75

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Sweden: political and religious condition of; historical summary of Polish connection; origin of her intervention in the Thirty Years' War; truce with Poland; alliance with France 1631; condition after death of Gustavus.

From The History of the Thirty Years' War by Schiller, Friedrich

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