heat of transformation

1. 1.

   heat absorbed or radiated during a change of phase at a constant temperature and pressure

   Synonymslatent heat

   Broaderheat

   Narrowerheat of condensationheat of fusionheat of solidificationheat of sublimationheat of vaporization

Questions about heat of transformation

What does heat of transformation mean?

heat of transformation means "heat absorbed or radiated during a change of phase at a constant temperature and pressure".

What is another word for heat of transformation?

Close synonyms include latent heat. 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 heat of transformation a common word?

heat of transformation 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.