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ELECTRIC FURNACE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does electric furnace mean?
• ELECTRIC FURNACE (noun)
The noun ELECTRIC FURNACE has 1 sense:
1. any furnace in which the heat is provided by an electric current
Familiarity information: ELECTRIC FURNACE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any furnace in which the heat is provided by an electric current
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("electric furnace" is a kind of...):
furnace (an enclosed chamber in which heat is produced to heat buildings, destroy refuse, smelt or refine ores, etc.)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "electric furnace"):
electric-arc furnace; Stassano furnace (an electric furnace in which an electric arc provides the source of heat for making steel)
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