heating surface

English

Noun

heating surface (plural heating surfaces)

1. In a steam boiler, the aggregate surface exposed to fire or to the heated products of combustion, especially of all the plates or sheets that are exposed to water on their opposite surfaces.
   • 1941 January, “Recent North American Locomotives”, in Railway Magazine, page 27:

     [...] combined heating surface is 6,151 sq. ft. (tubes, 530 sq. ft., flues, 3,275 sq. ft., firebox, with arches and thermic syphons, 415 sq. ft., and superheater 1,931 sq. ft.); [...].

Synonyms

• fire surface

Translations

surface exposed to fire in a boiler

• Finnish: tulipinta
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: heteflate m or f

  Nynorsk: heteflate f

References

• “heating surface”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “heating surface”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)