defrost


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Synonyms for defrost

thaw

Antonyms

  • freeze (up)
  • frost
  • ice over or up
Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for defrost

make or become free of frost or ice

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South Wales Police said that a car was also stolen in theWhitchurch area of Cardiff as the owner defrosted their car.
Although the fans are usually turned off, natural convection can cause air velocities as high as 0.5 m [s.sup.-1] over and through the coils during defrost. Ceiling-hung coils are more significantly impacted by natural convection than penthouse units.
A visual observation allows affirming that the air coil is completely defrosted. Then at time 155 s, T1 decreases drastically down to nearly 0 [degrees]C whereas the evolution of temperature T2 shows a less steep decrease.
There are many ways in which a poorly maintained defrost system can kill the efficiency of the system.
A plant can be equipped with sequential defrost for 144 hours of production time without interruption, along with options like feeding and discharging conveyors and frequency controlled fans.
Also boasts a variable browning function, defrost, reheat and cancel functions and removable crumb tray.
"Since the start of the week a number of people across the county have had their cars stolen while their engines have been running to defrost them."
He said the alternative would have been to install a larger evaporator or a sequential defrost system-both larger, more costly and energy hungry options.
It features variable browning control, cancel, reheat and defrost functions, and a removable crumb tray.
Stone Mountain, Ga.-based InterLink says its Smart Defrost Kit (SDK) offers retailers another way to cut energy costs by automatically predicting frost accumulations on refrigeration equipment.
* Remove food from its packaging before you defrost it in the microwave.
These days the Old Viking's anarchic spirit attracts a younger generation, and cocurators Karola Grasslin and artist Cosima von Bonin are determined to defrost his legacy after many a Scandinavian winter.
Another control, labeled "Inverter Turbo Defrost," applies a sequence of low power microwaves in a pattern Panasonic claims is based on chaos theory.