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Definition of Heat unit
1. Noun. A unit of measurement for work.
Generic synonyms: Unit, Unit Of Measurement
Specialized synonyms: Erg, Electron Volt, Ev, J, Joule, Watt Second, Calorie, Gram Calorie, Small Calorie, Calorie, Kilocalorie, Kilogram Calorie, Large Calorie, Nutritionist's Calorie, B.th.u., British Thermal Unit, Btu, Therm, Watt-hour, B.t.u., Board Of Trade Unit, Kilowatt Hour, Kw-hr, Foot-pound, Foot-ton, Foot-poundal, Horsepower-hour, Kilogram-meter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Heat Unit
Literary usage of Heat unit
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Mechanical Theory of Heat: With Its Applications to the Steam-engine and by Rudolf Clausius (1867)
"On the one hand it is always difficult to change a unit when once adopted, and
on the other there is here the additional circumstance that the heat-unit ..."
2. A Text-book of Physics: Heat by John Henry Poynting, Joseph John Thomson (1906)
"Quantity of Heat—Unit Quantity: the Calory—Specific Heat—Water Equivalent and
Capacity for Heat—Method of ..."
3. Heating and Ventilating Buildings: A Manual for Heating Engineers and Architects by Rolla Clinton Carpenter (1915)
"Measure of Heat—Heat-unit.—As explained heat cannot be measured by the thermometer
... In English-speaking countries the mean heat-unit is 1/180 of the heat ..."
4. A Treatise on Producer-gas and Gas-producers by Samuel S. Wyer (1906)
"heat unit. The unit quantity of heat, or the heat unit, is the heat required to
raise the temperature of a unit weight of water one degree. ..."
5. The Mechanical Engineering of Steam Power Plants by Frederic Remsen Hutton (1908)
"The Work Unit and heat unit are Convertible. The Volume of Steam per Horsepower.
The unit of heat is the quantity of heat required to raise one pound of ..."
6. A Text Book of the Physics of Agriculture by Franklin Hiram King (1907)
"heat unit.-—In the steam engine the energy of heat is converted into work, ...
The English and American heat unit is the amount of heat energy which is ..."
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