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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The character of being adiathermanous; the property by virtue of which a substance absorbs the invisible heatrays of the spectrum: opposed to diathermancy.

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  • noun obsolete A resistance to the flow of heat

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  • a different type of radiator

    August 24, 2009