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thermal

1. of, relating to, caused by, or generating heat or increased temperature

2. (of garments or fabrics) specially designed so as to have exceptional heat-retaining properties

3. Meteorol a column of rising air caused by local unequal heating of the land surface, and used by gliders and birds to gain height

thermal [′thər·məl]

(meteorology)

A relatively small-scale, rising current of air produced when the atmosphere is heated enough locally by the earth's surface to produce absolute instability in its lower layers.

(thermodynamics)

Of or concerning heat.

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