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Definition of Heating element
1. Noun. The component of a heater or range that transforms fuel or electricity into heat.
Generic synonyms: Component, Constituent, Element
Group relationships: Electric Fire, Electric Heater, Electric Range, Gas Cooker, Gas Range, Gas Stove
Lexicographical Neighbors of Heating Element
Literary usage of Heating element
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Fuels by Raymond Foss Bacon, William Allen Hamor (1922)
"This stove shall consist of (1) a heating element and (2) a top plate on which
... heating element.—The heating element shall have a cylindrical interior ..."
2. Engineering Series Bulletin (1910)
"A large-sized heating element should be used for the preheating and be ...
For baking at the higher temperatures a heating element in the upper part of the ..."
3. Electric Furnaces in the Iron and Steel Industry by Wm Rodenhauser, I. Schoenawa (1917)
"If we were to place such a heating element or resistor in an iron bath we would
... In this case a very poor conductor (the heating element) of very high ..."
4. Physics of the Household by Carleton John Lynde (1914)
"This wire is known as the heating element. The electric iron. ... The heating
element (1) consists of two coils of thin wire wound upon heavy brass cores. ..."
5. Electric Heating by Edgar Andrew Wilcox (1916)
"An enclosed type heating element of 550 watts capacity is fastened to the bottom
of the outer jacket. A diaphragm, the buckling of which, actuates a contact ..."
6. Household Physics by Claude H. Brechner (1919)
"If the iron does not get hot enough, it may be fixed by short- circuiting one
turn of its heating element, thus letting through more current. ..."
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