Heating is making something warm. It could mean:
- HVAC: Heating, ventilation and air-conditioning.
HVACR "R" stand for Refrigeration
Heating devices, or systems:
- Block heater, or headbolt heater, an electric heater that heats the engine of a car to ease starting in cold weather
- Boiler
- Cathode heater, a coil or filament used to heat the cathode in a vacuum tube or cathode ray tube
- Central heating, method of providing warmth from one point to multiple rooms or apartments of a building
- Convector heater, a heater which operates by air convection currents circulating through the body of the appliance
- Dielectric heating, the phenomenon in which radiowave or microwave electromagnetic radiation heats a dielectric material
- District heating, a system for distributing heat generated in a centralized location for residential and commercial heating requirements
- Fan heater, a heater that works by using a fan to pass air over a heating element
- Feedwater heater, a power plant component used to pre-heat water delivered to the boiler
- Fireplace, an architectural element consisting of a space designed to contain a fire for heating or cooking
- Gas heater, a heater that burns natural gas or liquefied petroleum gas
- Geothermal heat pump, a heat pump that uses the thermal mass of the Earth to regulate indoor temperatures
- Geothermal heating a method of heating using geothermal heat
- Heating pad, a pad used for warming of parts of the body
- Hydronics, the use of water as the heat-transfer medium in heating and cooling systems
- Induction heating, the process of heating a metal object by electromagnetic induction
- Radiant heating, a heating system which heats a building through radiant heat rather than convection or forced-air heating
- Radiator, a heat exchanger designed to transfer thermal energy from one medium to another for the purpose of cooling and heating
- Radioisotope heater unit, small heaters that provide heat through radioactive decay
- Salamander heater, a portable forced-air or convection heater, often kerosene-fueled, used in ventilated areas for worksite comfort
- Solar furnace a structure used to harness the sun's rays to produce very high temperatures
- Solar heating, the usage of solar energy to provide process, space or water heating
- Storage heater, an electrical appliance which stores heat at a time when base load electricity is available at a low price
- Water heating, the heating of water for residential, commercial or industrial use
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