heating element

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   the component of a heater or range that transforms fuel or electricity into heat

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Questions about heating element

What does heating element mean?

heating element means "the component of a heater or range that transforms fuel or electricity into heat".

Is heating element a common word?

heating element 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.