superheating

verb

present participle of superheat
as in heating

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  1. heating
  2. warming
  3. reheating
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  • By heating food using electromagnetic energy, microwave ovens made reheating and quick meal preparation easier, changing everyday cooking habits across much of the world.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 25 Oct. 2026
  • Meanwhile, atmospheric carbon dioxide crept up by roughly 20 parts per million between 8,000 and 2,000 years ago, increasing the greenhouse effect that was heating the atmosphere up.
    — Jacek Krywko, ArsTechnica, 24 Oct. 2026
Definition of heating
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  • When a pattern of warming waters hit the Gulf of Maine in the early 2010s, right whales started to abandon their feeding grounds.
    — Ryan Green, Scientific American, 26 Oct. 2026
  • Forecasters said El Niño, the weather pattern warming parts of the Pacific, was likely to blame for the latest storm’s unusually heavy rainfall.
    — Anna Wilder, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2026
Definition of warming
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  • The restaurant was reportedly using a steam table and a rice cooker for reheating macaroni and cheese, beans, collard greens and other foods, despite the equipment not being designed to reheat food.
    — Camila Pedrosa, Sacbee.com, 17 Apr. 2026
Definition of reheating
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“Superheating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/superheating. Accessed 27 Oct. 2026.

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