'Heating surface' definitions:

Definition of 'Heating surface'

From: GCIDE
  • Heating \Heat"ing\ (h[=e]t"[i^]ng), a. That heats or imparts heat; promoting warmth or heat; exciting action; stimulating; as, heating medicines or applications. [1913 Webster]
  • Heating surface (Steam Boilers), the aggregate surface exposed to fire or to the heated products of combustion, esp. of all the plates or sheets that are exposed to water on their opposite surfaces; -- called also fire surface. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Heating surface'

From: GCIDE
  • Surface \Sur"face`\, n. [F. See Sur-, and Face, and cf. Superficial.]
  • 1. The exterior part of anything that has length and breadth; one of the limits that bound a solid, esp. the upper face; superficies; the outside; as, the surface of the earth; the surface of a diamond; the surface of the body. [1913 Webster]
  • The bright surface of this ethereous mold. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Hence, outward or external appearance. [1913 Webster]
  • Vain and weak understandings, which penetrate no deeper than the surface. --V. Knox. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. (Geom.) A magnitude that has length and breadth without thickness; superficies; as, a plane surface; a spherical surface. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. (Fort.) That part of the side which is terminated by the flank prolonged, and the angle of the nearest bastion. --Stocqueler. [1913 Webster]
  • Caustic surface, Heating surface, etc. See under Caustic, Heating, etc.
  • Surface condensation, Surface condenser. See under Condensation, and Condenser.
  • Surface gauge (Mach.), an instrument consisting of a standard having a flat base and carrying an adjustable pointer, for gauging the evenness of a surface or its height, or for marking a line parallel with a surface.
  • Surface grub (Zool.), the larva of the great yellow underwing moth (Triphoena pronuba). It is often destructive to the roots of grasses and other plants.
  • Surface plate (Mach.), a plate having an accurately dressed flat surface, used as a standard of flatness by which to test other surfaces.
  • Surface printing, printing from a surface in relief, as from type, in distinction from plate printing, in which the ink is contained in engraved lines. [1913 Webster]