Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun heat_energy

1 sense of heat energy

Sense 1
heat, heat energy -- (a form of energy that is transferred by a difference in temperature)
       => energy, free energy -- ((physics) a thermodynamic quantity equivalent to the capacity of a physical system to do work; the units of energy are joules or ergs; "energy can take a wide variety of forms")