Heating

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1.

That heats or imparts heat; promoting warmth or heat; exciting action; stimulating; as, heating medicines or applications. 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.

Noun	1.	heating - the process of becoming warmer; a rising temperature Synonyms: warming
	2.	heating - utility to warm a building; "the heating system wasn't working"; "they have radiant heating" Synonyms: heating plant, heating system, heat
Adj.	1.	heating - serving to heat; "a heating pad is calefactory" Synonyms: calefactive, calefactory

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