Definition of Steam heat

1. Noun. A heating system in which steam is generated in boilers and piped to radiators.

Exact synonyms: Steam Heating
Generic synonyms: Heat, Heating, Heating Plant, Heating System

Lexicographical Neighbors of Steam Heat

steam boiler
steam boilers
steam chest
steam clean
steam coal
steam condenser
steam condensers
steam cracker
steam cracking
steam distillation
steam engine
steam engines
steam fitting
steam hammer
steam hammers
steam heat (current term)
steam heater
steam heaters
steam heating
steam iron
steam irons
steam line
steam locomotive
steam locomotives
steam organ
steam pipe
steam power
steam radio
steam roller
steam rollers

Literary usage of Steam heat

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Municipal Franchises: A Description of the Terms and Conditions Upon which by Delos Franklin Wilcox (1910)
"But the company was " privileged to furnish such steam heat to its consumers by meter measurement, in which event the rate charged by it for steam " was to ..."

2. Outlines of Industrial Chemistry: A Text-book for Students by Frank Hall Thorp, Warren Kendall Lewis (1916)
"The third method of evaporation, by the use of steam heat, is very often employed where there is danger of injury to the product by overheating. ..."

3. Handbook for Heating and Ventilating Engineers by James David Hoffman, Benedict Frederick Raber (1913)
"Suggestions for Exhist steam heat, Apr. 7, 1904, p. 332. An Improved steam heat. ... A Unique Low Pressure steam heat. Apparatus, Feb. 1909, p. 38. ..."

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