chiller
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chiller (plural chillers)
- Something that chills
- a machine that produces cold air, either for air conditioning, to prepare chilled foods etc.
- a heat exchanger between a coolant and a refrigerant, to transfer heat from the coolant loop into the refrigeration system
- A machine that removes heat from the working fluid in a refrigeration cycle
- A frightening dramatic work, such as a book or film
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- 2002, Robert C. Summers, Lawrence J. Dyckman, Food Safety:
- Carcasses are then trimmed, rinsed, and, as the final step of the slaughter line, placed into a chiller.
- 1991, Michael R. Pitts, Famous Movie Detectives II:
- Variety termed the film "a fairly suspenseful low-budget chiller."
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machine that produces cold air
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chiller
- comparative form of chill: more chill
- 1844 Chambers's Edinburgh Journal
- With the setting of the sun a strong breeze, every blast of which was chiller and chiller, had begun to blow, rustling with a low continuous hum . . .
- 1844 Chambers's Edinburgh Journal
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