specific heat

1. 1.

   the heat required to raise the temperature of one gram of a substance one degree centigrade

   Broaderheat

Questions about specific heat

What does specific heat mean?

specific heat means "the heat required to raise the temperature of one gram of a substance one degree centigrade".

Is specific heat a common word?

specific heat 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.