electric furnace

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   any furnace in which the heat is provided by an electric current

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Questions about electric furnace

What does electric furnace mean?

electric furnace means "any furnace in which the heat is provided by an electric current".

Is electric furnace a common word?

electric furnace 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.