overheating
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overheating
verb
- present participle and gerund of overheat
noun overheatings
- A situation where something is overheated. Even if no weakening effects were noticed after one or two overheatings, the cumulative heat effects would cause embrittlement and failure after subsequent overheatings.
- The situation where the productive capacity of an economy is unable to keep pace with growing aggregate demand, generally characterised by a below-average rate of economic growth, where growth is occurring at an unsustainable rate.
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Closest in meaning: hot, heat, warming, boiling, heating, thermal, boom, growing, exhaustion, feverish, excessive, raging, exaggerating, overtemperature, overheater, overvoltage
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noun a situation where something is overheated
| Português | sobreaquecimento, superaquecimento |
|---|---|
| Français | surchauffe |
| Deutsch | Überhitzung |
| Русский | перегрева́ние peregrevánije, перегре́в peregrév |
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title = {overheating},
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