calorifere

See also: calorifère

English

Etymology

From French calorifère, from Latin calor (“heat”) + ferre (“to bear”).

Noun

calorifere (plural caloriferes)

  1. An apparatus for conveying and distributing heat, especially by means of hot water circulating in tubes.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for calorifere in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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