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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An agent that produces cooling, especially a fluid that draws off heat by circulating through an engine or by bathing a mechanical part.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun a fluid (gas or liquid) used to cool a device by transferring heat away from one part to another.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A medium, usually fluid, used to draw heat from an object.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a fluid agent (gas or liquid) that produces cooling; especially one used to cool a system by transferring heat away from one part to another

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