convection

Example Sentences

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The heat, stoked in a treeless desert where rising warm air is trapped by surrounding mountains and recirculates like a convection oven, seemed like a distant legend to our wool-hatted and thermal-clad crowd.

From New York Times

The study authors explain the inner core grows outward by solidifying materials from the liquid outer core, releasing heat and creating convection currents.

From Washington Post

Once the sea breeze starts up, widespread convection — or the vertical transfer of heat in the atmosphere — begins.

From Washington Post

To begin, the atmosphere isn’t favorable for organized convection, or shower/thunderstorm activity, that would be needed to seed a tropical system.

From Washington Post

To approximate the effects of an air fryer, I used the convection setting and made sure to move the pasta around so it was evenly toasted on all sides.

From Salon