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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.
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  • John Engler in FOXNews
    The Chinese must realize that the risk now lies in acting too slowly rather than acting too rapidly, not just in trade, but in addressing their own overheating economy,said John Engler, president of the National Association of Manufacturers.
  • Bernard Lacombe in Goal.com
    China's leaders have voiced concerns about China's macroeconomic stability, in particular mounting inflation, growing asset bubbles and possible overheating. A more flexible exchange rate policy is especially important to China now, given these... Henry Paulson http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Paulson&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFunf9jqAG4PIOWvnV9rZ6KE6zAlQ Reuters Canada http://www.google.com/url?q=http://ca.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx%3Ftype%3DtopNews%26storyID%3D2007-12-12T083654Z_01_PEK109847_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-USA-CHINA-COL.XML%26archived%3DFalse&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFAjX-gXefo9J9zWVJQWJY6LyQXyw Dec 12, 2007 71078 95155 overheating Speaking to Dauphine Libere, Lacombe said, The fax is not overheating. Even if you should never say never in football, there is a lot of noise about nothing at this moment. The idea is still to keep Karim for another season."

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