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

1 sense of heat of fusion

Sense 1
heat of fusion -- (heat absorbed by a unit mass of a solid at its melting point in order to convert the solid into a liquid at the same temperature; "the heat of fusion is equal to the heat of solidification")
       => latent heat, heat of transformation -- (heat absorbed or radiated during a change of phase at a constant temperature and pressure)