HVAC

[eych-vee-ey-see, eych-vak]

noun

1. heating, ventilation (or ventilating), and air conditioning.

   The right HVAC system can help regulate the environmental factors inside your home, like air quality, humidity, and temperature.

Word History and Origins

Origin of HVAC¹

First recorded in 1940–45

Example Sentences

Before running for office, he had a vision of the empty former prison becoming an academy for trade skills such as HVAC, welding or even Cal Fire training.

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This might look like fire abatement measures in wildfire-prone areas, or updating HVAC, plumbing and electrical systems, or earthquake retrofitting — which also improve home values when you’re ready to sell.

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In construction, we are still standing around the unfinished Tower of Babel, unable to communicate knowledge about plumbing, HVAC, or window design.

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Two decades later, that idea has morphed into a Glendale company called ServiceTitan, which last year served some 8,000 plumbing, HVAC, janitorial and other firms with a soup-to-nuts software suite — and now plans to go public on Nasdaq under the ticker “TTAN.”

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One of them, Heath, worked in HVAC; the other, Shaw, worked in mining.

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