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convector

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convector: see heating heating, means of making a building comfortably warm relative to a colder outside temperature. Old, primitive methods of heating a building or a room within it include the open fire, the fireplace, and the stove .
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convector
a space-heating device from which heat is transferred to the surrounding air by convection

convector [kən′vek·tər]
(engineering)
A heat-emitting unit for the heating of room air; it has a heating element surrounded by a cabinet-type enclosure with openings below and above for entrance and egress of air.


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According to REBNY guidelines, on a full floor basis, Usable Area includes electrical closets, fan rooms servicing the floor, janitorial rooms, bathrooms, load bearing columns and space occupied by perimeter convectors.
This process is made using the air as a thermo convector fluid, heated by an electric heat exchanger.
``The Toynbee Convector,'' California Artists Radio Theatre at the Beverly Garland Hotel.
 
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