british thermal unit

1. 1.

   a unit of heat equal to the amount of heat required to raise one pound of water one degree Fahrenheit at one atmosphere pressure; equivalent to 251.997 calories

   SynonymsBTUB.Th.U.

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Questions about british thermal unit

What does british thermal unit mean?

british thermal unit means "a unit of heat equal to the amount of heat required to raise one pound of water one degree Fahrenheit at one atmosphere pressure; equivalent to 251.997 calories".

What is another word for british thermal unit?

Close synonyms include BTU, B.Th.U.. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is british thermal unit a common word?

british thermal unit is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.