ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Overheating

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech verb

Quick meaning: Overheating is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of overheat.

Meaning

present participle and gerund of overheat.

More Meanings

  1. A situation where something is overheated.
  2. (economics) 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.

Example Sentences

Even if no weakening effects were noticed after one or two overheatings, the cumulative heat effects would cause embrittlement and failure after subsequent overheatings.

Word Forms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include hot, heat, warming, boiling, heating, thermal.

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