microwave oven

1. 1.

   kitchen appliance that cooks food by passing an electromagnetic wave through it; heat results from the absorption of energy by the water molecules in the food

   Synonymsmicrowave

   Broaderkitchen appliance

Questions about microwave oven

What does microwave oven mean?

microwave oven means "kitchen appliance that cooks food by passing an electromagnetic wave through it; heat results from the absorption of energy by the water molecules in the food".

What is another word for microwave oven?

Close synonyms include microwave. 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 microwave oven a common word?

microwave oven 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.