Usually means: Heat transfer through fluid movement.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. convection: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  2. convection: Collins English Dictionary
  3. convection: Vocabulary.com
  4. Convection, convection: Wordnik
  5. convection: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. convection: Wiktionary
  7. convection: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. convection: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. convection: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. convection: Dictionary.com
  11. convection: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. Convection (meteorology), Convection: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Convection: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. convection: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. convection: Rhymezone
  16. Convection: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. convection: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  18. convection: FreeDictionary.org
  19. convection: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. convection: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. convection: Merriam-Webster
  22. convection: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  23. convection: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. convection: Linda's Culinary Dictionary

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. convection: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. convection: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  5. convection: Medical dictionary

Science (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. Electrochemistry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. From Stargazers to Starships Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Convection: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  4. Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms (No longer online)
  5. Mars Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Convection: Extragalactic Astronomy
  7. convection: Nine Planets Glossary
  8. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)
  9. Atmospheric Chemistry and Air Quality (No longer online)

Tech (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Efficient Windows (No longer online)
  3. Convection: Construction deterioration & building durability glossary
  4. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Common Hearth and Heating Terms (No longer online)
  6. Explosives (No longer online)
  7. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  8. PUMP AND SEAL TERMS (No longer online)
  9. Convection: Construction Glossary
  10. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  11. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  12. Glossary of Energy Terms (No longer online)
  13. SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL TERMS (No longer online)
  14. CONVECTION: Power Engineering

(Note: See convectional as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (obsolete) The process of conveying something.
noun:  (physics) The transmission of heat in a fluid by the circulation of currents.
noun:  (meteorology) The vertical movement of heat and moisture, especially by updrafts and downdrafts in an unstable air mass. The terms convection and thunderstorm are often used interchangeably, although thunderstorms are only one form of convection. Towering cumulus clouds are visible forms of convection.

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