a technique in which an insulator is heated by the application of a high-frequency electric field
dielectric heating in American English
US
the heating of dielectric materials by subjecting them to a high-frequency, alternating electric field, used in the bonding, drying, etc. of materials, as plastics and plywoods
dielectric heating in Electrical Engineering
(daɪɪlɛktrɪk hitɪŋ)
noun
(Electrical engineering: Semiconductor and electronic circuitry)
Dielectric heating is a form of heating in which electrically insulating material is heated by being subjected to an alternating electric field.
A cellphone cannot cook anything; even a hundred cellphones put together could notcause the dielectric heating effect that you witness in a microwave.
Dielectric heating is most widely observable in the microwave oven where it operates most efficientlyon liquid water, and much less so on fats, sugars, and frozen water.
Dielectric heating is a form of heating in which electrically insulating material is heated by beingsubjected to an alternating electric field.
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Related wordsCompare dielectric heating with induction heating, which is the heating of a conducting material as a result of the electric currentsinduced in it by an externally applied alternating magnetic field.