adj
Meaning 1
Pertaining to heat or temperature.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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Standard Lemma guide
thermal
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Australian, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈθɜːməl/
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Canada, General-American: /ˈθɝməl/
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adj
Meaning 2
Providing efficient insulation so as to keep the body warm.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Qualifier: fabric
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adj
Meaning 3
Caused or brought about by heat.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
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adj
Meaning 4
Having a rough finish from treatment with a blowtorch.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Topics: business, construction, manufacturing, masonry, stone
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name
Meaning 5
A census-designated place in Riverside County, California, United States.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 6
A column of rising air in the lower atmosphere created by uneven heating of a planet's surface.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: climatology, meteorology, natural-sciences
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noun
Meaning 7
FLIR.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: government, military, politics, war
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noun
Meaning 8
thermocline.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: nautical, transport
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verb
Meaning 9
To create a rough finish on stone by treating it with a high-temperature blowtorch.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: business, construction, manufacturing, masonry, stone
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verb
Meaning 10
To fly an unpowered aircraft in a thermal (column of rising air).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: gliding; often in the present participle; gliding; often in the present participle
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adjective
Meaning 11
of or relating to a hot spring
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- thermal water
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adjective
Meaning 12
relating to or associated with heat
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- thermal movements of molecules
- thermal capacity
- thermic energy
- the caloric effect of sunlight
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: thermic, caloric
Antonyms: nonthermal
adjective satellite
Meaning 13
caused by or designed to retain heat
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a thermal burn
- thermal underwear
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 14
rising current of warm air
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: wind, air current, current of air
History
Etymology
From French thermal, from New Latin *thermalis, from Ancient Greek θέρμη (thérmē, “heat”), from Proto-Indo-European *gwher- (“to heat, warm”).
Across languages
Translations
41 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: топлинен (toplinen) — pertaining to heat or temperature
- Bulgarian: термичен (termičen) — pertaining to heat or temperature
- Danish: termisk — pertaining to heat or temperature
- Finnish: lämpö- — pertaining to heat or temperature
- Finnish: terminen — pertaining to heat or temperature
- French: thermique — pertaining to heat or temperature
- Galician: termal — pertaining to heat or temperature
- German: thermisch — pertaining to heat or temperature
- Ido: termala — pertaining to heat or temperature
- Indonesian: termal — pertaining to heat or temperature
- Indonesian: termis — pertaining to heat or temperature
- Irish: teirmeach — pertaining to heat or temperature
- Italian: termico — pertaining to heat or temperature
- Malay: terma — pertaining to heat or temperature
- Marathi: औष्णिक (auṣṇik) — pertaining to heat or temperature
- Norwegian Bokmål: termisk — pertaining to heat or temperature
- Norwegian Nynorsk: termisk — pertaining to heat or temperature
- Portuguese: térmico — pertaining to heat or temperature
- Portuguese: termal — pertaining to heat or temperature
- Romanian: termal — pertaining to heat or temperature
- Romanian: termic — pertaining to heat or temperature
- Russian: теплово́й (teplovój) — pertaining to heat or temperature
- Russian: терма́льный (tɛrmálʹnyj) — pertaining to heat or temperature
- Russian: терми́ческий (termíčeskij) — pertaining to heat or temperature
- Spanish: termal — pertaining to heat or temperature
- Swedish: termisk — pertaining to heat or temperature
- Finnish: lämpö- — providing efficient insulation so as to keep the body warm
- Finnish: terminen — providing efficient insulation so as to keep the body warm
- French: thermique — providing efficient insulation so as to keep the body warm
- Spanish: termal — providing efficient insulation so as to keep the body warm
- French: thermique — caused, brought about by heat
- Italian: termico — caused, brought about by heat
- Portuguese: térmico — caused, brought about by heat
- Spanish: térmico — caused, brought about by heat
- Dutch: thermiek — column of rising air
- Finnish: termiikki — column of rising air
- French: thermique — column of rising air
- German: Thermik — column of rising air
- Italian: corrente ascensionale — column of rising air
- Romanian: curent ascensional — column of rising air
- Romanian: curent ascendent — column of rising air
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