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heat-wave
a. A wave of radiant heat; one of those vibrations of the ether that produce heating effects: see heat n. 2 b.
b. A ‘wave’ or access of excessive heat in the atmosphere, esp. when regarded as passing from one place to another.
1878J. Fiske in N. Amer. Rev. CXXVI. 35 The sum⁓total of motion is ever the same, but its distribution into heat-waves, light-waves, nerve-waves, &c., varies. 1893R. S. Ball In the High Heavens xii, (heading) The ‘Heat Wave’ of 1892. Ibid. The culmination of what had been somewhat absurdly designated ‘the great heat-wave’..The so-called heat-wave then seems to have travelled eastward. |