superheat

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Rhymes: -iːt

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superheat (third-person singular simple present superheats, present participle superheating, simple past and past participle superheated)

To heat a liquid above its boiling point
To heat a vapour above its saturation point
To heat too much, to overheat.
to superheat an oven

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superheatable

Noun edit

superheat (uncountable)

The excess of temperature of a vapour above its temperature of saturation.
- 1944 November and December, Lord Monkswell, “The French Four-Cylinder Compound Engine”, in Railway Magazine, page 326:
  In addition to all this, the fluidity of the steam itself was much increased by high superheat, usually achieved by means of the Houlet superheater.

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