thermal

• adj.熱い; 発熱性; 保温性
• n. 熱い空気の上昇気流

therm-、熱、熱量、-al、形容詞接尾辞。

thermal (adj.)

1756, "having to do with hot springs," from French thermal (Buffon), from Greek therme "heat, feverish heat," from PIE *gwher- "to heat, warm" (cognates: Latin fornax "an oven, kiln," formus "warm," Old English wearm; see warm (adj.)). Sense of "having to do with heat" is first recorded 1837. The noun meaning "rising current of relatively warm air" is recorded from 1933.

1. He was found by a police helicopter using thermal imaging equipment.

警察用ヘリコプターが熱イメージング装置を用いて彼を見つけた。

2.My feet were like blocks of ice despite the thermal socks.

暖かい靴下を履いていますが、私の足は氷のようです。

3.Rescue teams are using thermal imaging to locate survivors of the earthquake.

救助隊はサーモグラフィーを用いて地震生存者の位置を特定している。

4.The atomic reactor generates enormous amounts of thermal energy.

原子炉は大量の熱エネルギーを放出する。

5.They will build another thermal power station.

彼らは別の熱エネルギー発電所を建設する。