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heat wave
[ heet weyv ]
noun
- a period of abnormally hot and usually humid weather; heat event:
I moved to the coast up north because summer back home has become one long, unbearable heat wave.
- an air mass of high temperature covering an extended area and moving relatively slowly:
Another heat wave is expected to form across the South and into the Northeast by week’s end.
heat wave
noun
- a continuous spell of abnormally hot weather
- not in technical use an extensive slow-moving air mass at a relatively high temperature
Word History and Origins
Origin of heat wave1
Example Sentences
EnerNOC in turn pays users—which it calls “assets”—to curtail power usage during peak-demand events such as a heat wave.
If you thought this recent heat wave has been bad, try braving 1,800-degree temperatures with 4,350-mile-per-hour winds.
This summer's punishing heat wave could wreak havoc on grocery bills.
A study published in 2005 showed just that kind of loading for the European heat wave of 2003.
As a “giant heat wave” moved east across the nation, heat records that dated back to the Dust Bowl fell with uncanny speed.
The heat-wave had put forward the almanac, and the Newport season was in full swing nearly a month in advance of its usual date.
The next day the first intense heat wave of summer swept over Tunkett.
In the case of a sustained heat-wave, this would take place at some time during each night.
Here we were in the middle of a heat wave, the thermometer nudging ninety, and the old guy's wrist is like an icicle!
We were in a furnace—a heat-wave in which we were like to drown.
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