thermal pollution

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   harm to lakes and rivers resulting from the release of excessive waste heat into them

   Broaderpollution

Questions about thermal pollution

What does thermal pollution mean?

thermal pollution means "harm to lakes and rivers resulting from the release of excessive waste heat into them".

Is thermal pollution a common word?

thermal pollution 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.