overheating
oh ver hee ting
- n excessive heating
- v get excessively and undesirably hot
- v make excessively or undesirably hot
- If engine overheating is noticed immediately, they say, the pilot can shut down and restart the engines before they are damaged.
- If a water-moderated reactor loses coolant there may be overheating and even an explosion, but the reaction slows down when coolant is lost.
- The Free Press in neighboring Burlington asked how, for example, overheating could be prevented in summer as the sun beat down on the dome.