How to Use heat sink in a Sentence

heat sink

noun
  • Pi also added two mounting holes for heat sinks to the board.
    — Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Once that's heated up and pried off, you'll be greeted with a large graphite heat sink.
    — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 26 July 2022
  • To harness this natural quirk is to use deep space as a kind of heat sink.
    — Joseph Dussault, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Oct. 2017
  • Cooling such a massive chip requires more than just a heat sink and a fan.
    — Mark Hachman, PCWorld, 19 Aug. 2019
  • The safest way to do this is to use a heat sink such as a jug filled with hot water or stones warmed in the sun.
    — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 11 Dec. 2025
  • The safest way to do this is to use a heat sink such as a jug filled with hot water or stones warmed in the sun.
    — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 4 Jan. 2025
  • That sheet of copper is not connected to some larger heat sink.
    — Jim Salter, Ars Technica, 21 June 2020
  • Those interiors sit on a substrate, are in an enclosure, and maybe have a heat sink on the top.
    — Zenger News, Forbes, 29 June 2021
  • The probe heats up one side of the generator, and a heat sink (4) ensures the other side stays cool.
    — Kevin Dupzyk, Popular Mechanics, 15 Mar. 2017
  • Instead, the capacitor itself moves between the heat source and heat sink.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 9 May 2024
  • Now line up your heat sink with the screws surrounding your processor and gently lower it into place.
    — Brad Bourque, Wired News, 9 Aug. 2024
  • The One features an anodized aluminum heat sink, bracket, and lanyard loop.
    — Justyn Newman, PC Magazine, 28 May 2026
  • Now line up your heat sink with the screws surrounding your processor, and gently lower it into place.
    — Brad Bourque, Wired News, 9 Aug. 2024
  • Now line up your heat sink with the screws surrounding your processor, and gently lower it into place.
    — Jess Grey, Wired, 7 June 2020
  • This is true for the liquid cooling systems in current use, which use the liquid to replace the metal heat sink.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 9 Sep. 2020
  • One of the largest possible sources of error comes from the thermal expansion of the heat sink attached to the device.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 22 Nov. 2016
  • Their findings show that space can serve as a practical heat sink for nighttime power generation.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 13 Nov. 2025
  • It is equipped with a heat sink, and its aluminum base also facilitates heat dissipation.
    — Tony Hoffman, PCMAG, 9 May 2022
  • On the cold side, the team again used femtosecond laser pulses—this time on aluminum—to produce a highly effective heat sink.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 13 Aug. 2025
  • For all those CPUs above that don't come with their own heat sink, this liquid cooling module could be a great option.
    — Eric Ravenscraft, Wired, 29 Nov. 2021
  • Graphcore also had to create a custom heat sink to keep the processors cool, despite the playful designs.
    — Chaim Gartenberg, The Verge, 26 Nov. 2018
  • That property may lead to better heat sinks for microelectronics.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 11 May 2012
  • Historically, electronics have been cooled down with heat sinks that passively draw the excess heat away.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 13 Nov. 2023
  • The aluminum enclosure has a solid, ridged heat sink on the bottom to make sure your drive doesn't cook itself during operation.
    — Anthony Karcz, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2022
  • The second test suggested that the battery cells could remain within a safe temperature range as long as there are sufficient heat sinks.
    — New Atlas, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Materials need to be added between the cells to act as a heat sink, stopping high temperatures from moving beyond an exploding cell.
    — Loren Grush, The Verge, 17 Aug. 2018
  • The temperature difference between the heat source and the heat sink has to be quite large before any reasonable amount of energy is transferred.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 11 Sep. 2018
  • Those long, narrow and deep lakes create the ideal climate for riesling, keeping the area cool in the summer and acting as a heat sink to retain warmth in colder seasons.
    — Michael Austin, chicagotribune.com, 7 Feb. 2018
  • The rendering from Nvidia’s video (seen in the screenshot below) also shows a heat sink stack on the side that looks identical to the cooler design in the leaks.
    — Gordon Mah Ung, PCWorld, 26 Aug. 2020
  • That heat can be bled off into a heat sink, and when the pressure is removed the molecules go back to being disordered and the temperature falls even further.
    — Brian Owens, Discover Magazine, 17 May 2019

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