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heating element

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noun

  1. a coil or other arrangement of wire in which heat is produced by an electric current

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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I jury-rigged a heating element for our Kenmore refrigerator’s balky ice-maker water-feed tube.

From The Wall Street Journal May 2, 2026

As an extra protective measure, the hair care tool must have a safety cover securely fitted over the heating element.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 25, 2025

When a photon strikes a pixel, the current shunted into the resistive heating element warms a small part of the readout wire, creating a tiny hotspot.

From Science Daily Oct. 25, 2023

The metals were thought to come from the heating element - but the tests showed they were in the e-liquid itself.

From BBC May 22, 2023

He discovered the heating element was gone, mainly because I had taken it to see if my plans for an electrical-ignition system would work.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam

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