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Preheater

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    An engineering device that preheats a material prior to some other process.

    "A Stone-Vapor "Watchman" oil-fired preheater raises the cooling water temperature to an optimum figure before the high-speed engine is started and thus minimises engine wear."

Etymology

From preheat + -er.

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