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overheating

nounB2Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #11,473 of 15,258neutral

Overheating is the becoming too hot for safe working. Engine overheating, prevent overheating, signs of overheating.

In machines it is the commonest cause of sudden failure, since heat destroys what friction has already weakened. In economics an overheating economy is one growing so fast that inflation follows.

Definitions of overheating

  1. 1nounoverheatingThe becoming too hot for safe working.B2

    “The laptop shut down suddenly because of overheating.”

overheating is a fault.

Where it comes from

  1. Middle English

    overheten

  2. English

    overheat

  3. English, today

    overheating

overheat comes from Middle English overheten. Cognate with German überheizen, überhitzen (“to overheat”), Swedish överhetta (“to overheat”). by surface analysis, en + over- + heat.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

overheating in the wild

  • The color of the smoke depends on which component is overheating, but it is commonly blue, grey, or white.

    Magic smoke

  • Leaks in the head gasket can cause poor engine running and/or overheating.

    Head gasket

  • The main reason behind overheating is insufficient supply allocation because of excess spending by the people due to increase in consumer wealth.

    Overheating (economics)

  • The weapon comes with 3 rotating barrels to reduce overheating and erosion during a firefight.

    Rheinmetall RMG 7.62

  • The engine failure had been caused by the effect of continuous overheating on the performance of the blades.

    Aeroflot Flight A-13

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.