heat unit

Questions about heat unit

What does heat unit mean?

heat unit means "a unit of measurement for work".

What is another word for heat unit?

Close synonyms include work unit, energy unit. 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 unit a common word?

heat unit is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.