reverberatory furnace

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   a furnace in which the material that is being treated is heated indirectly by flames that are directed at the roof and walls of the furnace

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Questions about reverberatory furnace

What does reverberatory furnace mean?

reverberatory furnace means "a furnace in which the material that is being treated is heated indirectly by flames that are directed at the roof and walls of the furnace".

Is reverberatory furnace a common word?

reverberatory 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.