Carrie Nugent

One of the reasons NEOWISE is so valuable is that it sees the sky in the thermal infrared. That means that instead of seeing the sunlight that asteroids reflect, NEOWISE sees the heat that they emit. This is a vital capability, since some asteroids are as dark as coal and can be difficult or impossible to spot with other telescopes.

American Scientist

Vinod Khosla

You know, one of the great things about most renewable technologies - not every technology, but many of them - is the jobs have to be local. When you're talking about a power plant and power generation using solar thermal technology, the jobs will be where the plant is.

American Businessman

Max von Laue

For both reasons, owing to the thermal motion and to the working together of various wavelengths, factors arise which, in a similar manner to the structural factor, exert some influence upon the brightness of the interference points but not upon their location.

German Scientist

Wolfgang Ketterle

Laser cooling opened a new route to ultralow temperature physics. Laser cooling experiments, with room temperature vacuum chambers and easy optical access, look very different from cryogenic cells with multi-layer thermal shielding around them.

German Physicist

Bjarke Ingels

Today, we have sophisticated building technology: we can calculate and simulate the environments and performance of the building, the thermal exposure of envelop, or the air flow through an urban space or structure.

Danish Architect

William McDonough

I am very focused on large-scale deployments of renewable power and how we're going to get this done. Imagine our military bases covered with solar thermal collectors that could generate steam and electricity.

American Designer

Claude Nicollier

You can see these boxes which are covered with metal foils for thermal reasons, and they are also, most of the time, thermally controlled inside to keep reasonable temperature inside each of these containers.

American Astronaut

Jens Martin Skibsted

Our houses, shops, and factories waste gigantic amounts of energy, often in the form of excess heat. How do we slash this waste? The answer is fairly simple: with a smart thermal water grid.

Danish Designer

Lucy Worsley

Windows will grow smaller again and houses will contain much less glass - not only because of the high energy costs of glass but because it's thermally inefficient.

Piyush Goyal

India doesn't take responsibility for the problems that the world is facing because of thermal coal.

Indian Politician

Used in science to describe processes or objects that involve heat, like in physics or environmental studies.

Scientific Term

Sometimes used metaphorically to describe something as being 'hot' in a figurative sense, such as a topic.

Metaphoric Use

Although associated with heat, 'thermal' doesn't mean something is hot to touch, more that it relates to heat.

Not Always Hot

Describes natural warm air currents, crucial in meteorology and used by birds and aviators.

Natural Phenomenon

Remember, 'thermal' as a noun is a natural occurrence and not something artificially created.

Not Man-Made

The term is often used in the context of flying without an engine, as in gliding or hang gliding.

Gliding Context

Refers to a type of clothing specifically made to retain body heat, popular in cold climates.

Clothing Category

Thermal clothes are made with materials or fabrics designed to provide extra warmth.

Specific Material

Often used as a base layer in apparel to keep the body's natural warmth from escaping.

Layering Concept

 against a mother's bare chest this is an incredibly effective form of thermal regulation and has a host of other benefits like promoting breastfeeding and mother-to-child bonding but it's difficult for mothers to do this 24 hours a day especially in cases where they have to go back to work days after they deliver to support the rest of the

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 that weight it's amazing isn't it the speed with which this technology can be used may allow huge improvements in how the world reacts to humanitarian crises a concrete canvas building has good thermal properties so whatever's inside is kept either cool or warm and it can even provide a sterile environment for

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 see that. But it's undeniable that is a Peregrine Falcon that's the fastest animal in the world. Peregrine Falcon. And their eyesight is absolutely brilliant at least eight times as good as ours. Peregrine's like to attack from above, so they use the thermals to position themselves on top of their prey,

Spotting the World's...

 would hit the ground at the same instant. And that's because in Middle World, air friction is always there. If we'd evolved in a vacuum, we would expect them to hit the ground simultaneously. If we were bacteria, constantly buffeted by thermal movements of molecules, it would be different.

Why the universe seems...

 because every object with a temperature above absolute zero will emit light. This is called thermal radiation. The hotter an object gets, the higher frequency the light it emits. When you heat a piece of iron, it will emit more and more frequencies of infrared light,

How quantum mechanics...

 and that's how we know where we are respective to the comet. And, of course, it's the first satellite to go beyond the orbit of Jupiter on solar cells. Now, this sounds more heroic than it actually is, because the technology to use radio isotope thermal generators

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 Sensors in specialized nerve endings detect mechanical, thermal, and chemical threats. If enough sensors are activated, electrical signals shoot up the nerve to the spine and on to the brain. The brain weighs the importance of these signals

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 that can extend a nautical mile away from the iceberg. This water is colder than the surrounding sea water, and the temperature variation creates thermal currents in the vicinity of the iceberg. Life thrives on and around an iceberg.

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 in the atacama desert george has called in wildlife camerawoman sophie darlington her thermal camera will be able to

Thermal

Related to heat.

Often appears as...

Usage tips

An upward current of warm air, used by birds and gliders to gain height.

Often appears as...

Designed to retain body heat.

Often appears as...

Scientific Term

Metaphoric Use

Not Always Hot

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