radiant heating

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noun

the means of heating objects or persons by radiation in which the intervening air is not heated.

a system for heating by radiation from a surface, especially from a surface heated by means of electric resistance, hot water, etc.

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Origin of radiant heating

First recorded in 1910–15

Words nearby radiant heating

radiant emittance, radiant energy, radiant exitance, radiant flux, radiant heat, radiant heating, radiant intensity, Radiata, radiata pine, radiate, radiate crown

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How to use radiant heating in a sentence

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We have no heating; there is no gas and it is very cold inside the prison.
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It is provided with best conditions for water supply, heating and ventilation.
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And, always, global warming could push the cutworm moths north, out of the park, by heating up the region.
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The clear and radiant sky was drowned in a quivering radiance of gold, that was like a thing alive and sensitively palpitating.
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On the following afternoon he found her, for instance, radiant with that exuberant happiness he had learned now to distrust.
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I gathered that he thought something of the boy, and was heating up to the door-smashing stage.
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Fresh and radiant she looked once more, no sign of tears, no traces of her recent emotion anywhere.
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The greatest part of the waste steam is condensed in heating the water to fill the boiler; what escapes is a mere nothing.
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British Dictionary definitions for radiant heating

radiant heating

noun

a system of heating a building by radiant heat emitted from panels containing electrical conductors, hot water, etc

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