Usually means: Device that dissipates thermal energy.
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General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. heat sink: Merriam-Webster
  2. heat sink: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. heat sink: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. heat sink: Collins English Dictionary
  5. heat sink: Vocabulary.com
  6. heat-sink: Wordnik
  7. heat sink: Wiktionary
  8. heat sink: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. heat sink: Dictionary.com
  10. Heat sink (disambiguation), Heat sink: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. heat sink: Rhymezone
  12. heat sink: FreeDictionary.org
  13. heat sink: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. heat sink: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
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Computing (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. heat sink: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Heat Sink, heat sink: CCI Computer
  3. Heat Sink: Tech Terms Computer Dictionary
  4. Webopedia (No longer online)
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  6. heat sink: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Heat sink: NRC Glossary of Nuclear Terms --

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Heat Sink: Urban Dictionary

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Heat sink: Fiberglass Glossary
  4. Glossary of Energy Terms (No longer online)
  5. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)
  6. HEAT SINK: Power Engineering

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Definitions from Wiktionary (heat sink)

noun:  (thermodynamics) An object, system or environment that absorbs and dissipates heat from objects in thermal contact (either direct or radiant) with it.
noun:  (thermodynamics) A place toward which the heat moves in a system.
noun:  (thermodynamics) A material capable of absorbing heat.

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