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PRONUNCIATION OF AFTERHEAT

afterheat  [ˈɑːftəˌhiːt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF AFTERHEAT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Afterheat is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES AFTERHEAT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of afterheat in the English dictionary

The definition of afterheat in the dictionary is the heat generated in a nuclear reactor after it has been shut down, produced by residual radioactivity in the fuel elements.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH AFTERHEAT


beat
biːt
complete
kəmˈpliːt
delete
dɪˈliːt
eat
iːt
elite
ɪˈliːt
feat
fiːt
feet
fiːt
heat
hiːt
meat
miːt
meet
miːt
overheat
ˌəʊvəˈhiːt
petite
pəˈtiːt
postheat
ˌpəʊstˈhiːt
preheat
priːˈhiːt
reheat
riːˈhiːt
repeat
rɪˈpiːt
seat
siːt
sheet
ʃiːt
superheat
ˌsuːpəˈhiːt
ultraheat
ˌʌltrəˈhiːt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE AFTERHEAT

afterclap
afterdamp
afterdeck
aftereffect
aftereye
aftergame
afterglow
aftergrass
aftergrowth
afterguard
afterimage
afterings
afterlife
aftermarket
aftermath
aftermost
afternoon
afternoon performance
afternoon session
afternoon tea

WORDS THAT END LIKE AFTERHEAT

black heat
buckwheat
cheat
cracked wheat
durum wheat
escheat
latent heat
mechanical equivalent of heat
on heat
prickly heat
radiant heat
residual heat
specific heat
the heat
total heat
turn up the heat
wheat
white heat
whole-wheat
winter wheat

Synonyms and antonyms of afterheat in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «afterheat» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF AFTERHEAT

Find out the translation of afterheat to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of afterheat from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «afterheat» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

余热
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

calor residual
570 millions of speakers

English

afterheat
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

afterheat
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

afterheat
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

afterheat
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

afterheat
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

afterheat
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

chaleur résiduelle
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Selepas makan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Nachwärme
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

余熱
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

afterheat
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Afterheat
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

afterheat
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

afterheat
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

उष्णतेची रास
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

geriye kalan enerjiden
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

afterheat
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

afterheat
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

afterheat
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

afterheat
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

afterheat
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

afterheat
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

eftervärme
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

varme i
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of afterheat

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «AFTERHEAT»

The term «afterheat» is used very little and occupies the 189.948 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of afterheat
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «AFTERHEAT» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «afterheat» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «afterheat» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about afterheat

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «AFTERHEAT»

Discover the use of afterheat in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to afterheat and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Role of Science in the Third Millennium, the - International ...
None of these events can occur in a modern reactor so long as the afterheat from decay of fission products in the core can be successfully removed as quickly as it is generated. In addition to afterheat removal, other topics of significance ...
Richard C. Ragaini, 2012
2
Nuclear Cross Sections and Technology: Proceedings of a ...
235U afterheat error estimate (constant fission rate - one standard deviation) Table VIII. 239Pu afterheat error estimate (constant fission rate - one standard deviation) The errors are significantly lower than in the previous case because the ...
Roald A. Schrack, Charles D. Bowman, American Nuclear Society. Reactor and Shielding Division, 1975
3
Sustainable and Safe Nuclear Fission Energy: Technology and ...
Emergency Cooling and Afterheat Removal Systems The emergency cooling system consists of the high pressure safety feed system, the flooding tank accumulators (Kraftwerk Union PWRs) and the low pressure safety feed system. The low ...
Günter Kessler, 2012
4
Laser Program Annual Report
comparison, the PCA stainless steel used in the STARFIRE tokamak design would be another order of magnitude worse.166 For afterheat, the shutdown ICF levels of ~1 MW are acceptable without emergency wall cooling while the levels of ...
5
Proceedings of a Symposium Advanced Compact Reactor Systems: ...
FBRs and RBRs would have independent shutdown heat removal systems. For the RBR, this prooably would be a separate pressurized H2 gas circuit. H~2 would flow througn the core to remove afterheat, with flow rate controlled by valves.
‎1983
6
Publications of the National Bureau of Standards ... catalog
Key words: afterheat; decay heat; error estimates: fission products: loss of coolant accident; sensitivity. This paper presents calculational results on the decay heat associated with the thermal fission of fflU and -"'Pu. Calculations are based on ...
United States. National Bureau of Standards, 1975
7
Materials for Advanced Energy Systems and Fission & Fusion ...
It is shown that the activity and afterheat power of actinides are mainly due to beta-decay of 239U and 239Np in the decay chains of the fuel breeding reaction, releasing energy of 0.040 MeV and 0.23 MeV per decay, respectively. Most of the  ...
‎2003
8
Management and Disposition of Excess Weapons Plutonium: ...
The requirement for cooling the nuclear-reactor core is not restricted to the times when the chain reaction is underway, but extends afterwards because of the phenomenon of "afterheat." This refers to the energy released by the radioactive  ...
Panel on Reactor-Related Options for the Disposition of Excess Weapons Plutonium, Office of International Affairs, Policy and Global Affairs, 1995
9
Critical Materials Problems In Energy Production
However, the level of activity by itself is not a meaningful measure of the tech— nological problems posed by radioactive inventories; evaluation of the associated nuclear afterheat and examination of the time—dependent behavior of the ...
Charles Stein, 1976
10
Nuclear Technology
Necessary because of afterheat. afterheat The thermal energy (heat) produced by the continuing decay of radioactive atoms in a nuclear reactor after the fission chain reaction has stopped. Most of the afterheat is due to the radioactive decay ...
Joseph A. Angelo, 2004

5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «AFTERHEAT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term afterheat is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Deploy Economic Diplomacy as a Tool to Redefine Security Affairs
In the afterheat of sometimes tactically divisive electoral campaigns, India and the world at large must eventually realise that there really are no ... «The New Indian Express, May 14»
2
S.African cement project finalized with Chinese investment
The project includes a new cement clinker production line with an annual output of 1 million tons, an afterheat electricity generation system with ... «Global Times, Nov 13»
3
Bill Gates: The good thing about nuclear power is its lack of innovation
... Fukushima's problems — primarily because they have better ways of dealing with the afterheat that results after a nuclear plant shuts down. «VentureBeat, May 11»
4
Apocalypse Today: Visiting Chernobyl, 25 Years Later
Chernobyl offers many lessons about what Princeton University engineering professor Robert Socolow calls the "afterheat" of a nuclear ... «TIME, Apr 11»
5
Sipsmith Gin and Vodka – a good mouth-feel (as they say)...
The gin had a more complex flavour, an edgy fruitiness and again, like the vodka, peppery afterheat developing in the mouth and a nice mouth ... «Foodepedia, Nov 09»

REFERENCE
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