white heat

1. 1.

   the hotness of something heated until it turns white

   Broaderhotness

Questions about white heat

What does white heat mean?

white heat means "the hotness of something heated until it turns white".

Is white heat a common word?

white 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.