hot water heater

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hot water heater

noun hot water heaters · hot-water heater · hotwater heater

  1. An apparatus, usually fuel-burning, electric or solar-powered, in which water is heated to be used directly as domestic hot water or process hot water (but not for supplying space heating, calorifiers etc, for which a boiler or furnace is used). This [warm-air heated] house has a supplemental electric hot water heater and an oil furnace.

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noun apparatus in which water is heated for domestic hot water

日本語給湯器 kyūtōki
中文熱水器 /热水器 rèshuǐqì
Françaischauffe-eau
DeutschWarmwasserspeicher, Boiler
Русскийводонагрева́тель vodonagrevátelʹ, водоподогрева́тель vodopodogrevátelʹ

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@misc{hot_water_heater_2026,
  title = {hot water heater},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/hot%20water%20heater},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}