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Definition of Hypocaust
1. n. A furnace, esp. one connected with a series of small chambers and flues of tiles or other masonry through which the heat of a fire was distributed to rooms above. This contrivance, first used in bath, was afterwards adopted in private houses.
Definition of Hypocaust
1. Noun. An underfloor space or flue through which heat from a furnace passes to heat the floor of a room or a bath, as illustrated by the ancient Roman ''hypocaustum'', and the traditional Korean ''ondol'' (??, ??). ¹
2. Noun. An underfloor heating system, even without such an underfloor space or flue, as adapted to the modern housing, east and west. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hypocaust
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hypocaust
Literary usage of Hypocaust
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Archaeologia Cantiana by Kent Archaeological Society (1876)
"The form of the hypocaust is so well given in the ground-plan, ... A hypocaust
is properly a kind of furnace or chamber, extending under the bath, ..."
2. Norfolk Archaeology, Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to the Antiquities of (1907)
"In some parts of the walls of the hypocaust the ... The space left after the
floor above the hypocaust had been broken up was filled with the remains of the ..."
3. Public Baths and Wash-houses: A Treatise on Their Planning, Design by Alfred William Stephens Cross (1906)
"Another method of heating Turkish baths is that employed by Messrs Thomas Bradford &
Co., by means of a reverberatory hypocaust, or chamber of mild steel, ..."
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