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hypocaust

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hypocaust (hī`pəkôst): 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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hypocaust
an ancient Roman heating system in which hot air circulated under the floor and between double walls
hypocaust
A central heating system of ancient Rome; hot gases from a furnace were conducted to rooms above, through a hollow floor and through tile flues within walls.
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It also features a collection of ancient Roman stonework and a reconstructed hypocaust feature in what was once known as the little amphitheatre.
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The origin of these systems is the hypocaust heating system of the Roman baths.
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