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radiator


  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Radiator  \Ra"di*a`tor\,  n. 
  1.  Any  of  various  devices  for  cooling  an  internal  substance 
  by  radiation,  as  a  system  og  rings  on  a  gun  barrel  for 
  cooling  it  or  a  nest  of  tubes  with  large  radiating 
  surface  for  cooling  circulating  water,  as  in  an 
  automobile. 
 
  2.  (Wireless  Teleg.)  An  oscillator. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Radiator  \Ra"di*a`tor\,  n. 
  That  which  radiates  or  emits  rays,  whether  of  light  or  heat; 
  especially,  that  part  of  a  heating  apparatus  from  which  the 
  heat  is  radiated  or  diffused;  as  a  steam  radiator. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  radiator 
  n  1:  any  object  that  radiates  energy 
  2:  a  series  of  pipes  for  circulating  steam  or  hot  water  to  heat 
  rooms  or  buildings 
  3:  a  mechanism  consisting  of  a  metal  honeycomb  through  which 
  hot  fluids  circulate;  heat  is  transferred  from  the  fluid 
  through  the  honeycomb  to  the  airstream  that  is  created 
  either  by  the  motion  of  the  vehicle  or  by  a  fan 




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