Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To cool (an engine) with water, especially circulating water.
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Examples
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Indeed, just because you have two 5970 videocards and want to water-cool your CPU, it doesn't mean you have to go with a full-tower anymore; some mid-towers have radiator mount points and room for your beefiest cards.
Maximum PC all RSS Feed Nathan Edwards 2010
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Indeed, just because you have two 5970 videocards and want to water-cool your CPU, it doesn't mean you have to go with a full-tower anymore; some mid-towers have radiator mount points and room for your beefiest cards.
Maximum PC all RSS Feed Nathan Edwards 2010
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Manned Orbiting Laboratory gloves with sharkskin palms and sewn-in steel fingernails, so nimble that an astronaut could pick up a dime while wearing them, even when they were pressurized; long johns laced with plastic pipes, to water-cool the wearer; and box after box of headgear, including Armstrong's gold-visored external helmet, once thought to have been left on the moon.
The Seattle Times 2010
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For those that plan to water-cool an A77 with a external rad may be surprised to see the inlet hole is covered by a hard plastic grommet rather than a rubber one.
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We actually water-cool the processor directly to pull the heat out.
Tom's hardware UK 2009
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