Turkish bath steam bath vapor bath vapour bath | you sweat in a steam room before getting a rubdown and cold shower |
steam fitting | care (installation and maintenance) of equipment for ventilating or heating or refrigerating |
carpet bombing area bombing saturation bombing | an extensive and systematic bombing intended to devastate a large target |
blastoderm germinal disc blastodisc germinal area | a layer of cells on the inside of the blastula |
area | a part of a structure having some specific characteristic or function, the spacious cooking area provided plenty of room for servants |
boiler steam boiler | sealed vessel where water is converted to steam |
breakfast area breakfast nook | a place for light meals (usually near a kitchen), the breakfast nook had a built in table and seats |
calliope steam organ | a musical instrument consisting of a series of steam whistles played from a keyboard |
cargo area cargo deck cargo hold hold storage area | the space in a ship or aircraft for storing cargo |
dining area | an area arranged for dining, they put up tents for the dining area |
equal-area projection equal-area map projection | a map projection in which quadrilaterals formed by meridians and parallels have an area on the map proportional to their area on the globe |
exhaust exhaust system | system consisting of the parts of an engine through which burned gases or steam are discharged |
exhaust fan | a fan that moves air out of an enclosure |
exhaust manifold | a manifold that receives exhaust gases from the cylinders and conducts them to the exhaust pipe |
exhaust pipe | a pipe through which burned gases travel from the exhaust manifold to the muffler |
exhaust valve | a valve through which burned gases from a cylinder escape into the exhaust manifold |
exhibition hall exhibition area | a large hall for holding exhibitions |
hood exhaust hood | metal covering leading to a vent that exhausts smoke or fumes |
launching pad launchpad launch pad launch area pad | a platform from which rockets or space craft are launched |
local area network LAN | a local computer network for communication between computers, especially a network connecting computers and word processors and other electronic office equipment to create a communication system between offices |
lounge waiting room waiting area | a room (as in a hotel or airport) with seating where people can wait |
pull-off rest area rest stop layby lay-by | designated paved area beside a main road where cars can stop temporarily |
seating seats seating room seating area | an area that includes places where several people can sit, there is seating forstudents in this classroom |
steam bath steam room vapor bath vapour bath | a room that can be filled with steam in which people bathe, `vapour bath' is a British term |
steam chest | the chamber from which steam is distributed to a cylinder |
steam engine | externalombustion engine in which heat is used to raise steam which either turns a turbine or forces a piston to move up and down in a cylinder |
steam heat steam heating | a heating system in which steam is generated in boilers and piped to radiators |
steam iron | a pressing iron that can emit steam |
steam line steam pipe | a pipe conducting steam |
steam locomotive | a locomotive powered by a steam engine |
steam shovel | a power shovel that is driven by steam |
steam turbine | turbine in which steam strikes blades and makes them turn |
steam whistle | a whistle in which the sound is produced by steam, usually attached to a steam boiler |
wide area network WAN | a computer network that spans a wider area than does a local area network |
wireless local area network WLAN wireless fidelity WiFi | a local area network that uses high frequency radio signals to transmit and receive data over distances of a few hundred feet, uses ethernet protocol |
area expanse surface area | the extent of a -dimensional surface enclosed within a boundary, the area of a rectangle, it was about square feet in area |
acreage land area | an area of ground used for some particular purpose (such as building or farming), he wanted some acreage to build on |
area region | a part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve, in the abdominal region |
area of cardiac dullness | a triangular area of the front of the chest (determined by percussion), corresponds to the part of the heart not covered by the lungs |
macula macula lutea macular area yellow spot | a small yellowish central area of the retina that is rich in cones and that mediates clear detailed vision |
pyriform area piriform area pyriform lobe piriform lobe | pear-shaped neural structure on either side of the brain in the rhinencephalon |
cortical area cortical region | any of various regions of the cerebral cortex |
association area association cortex | cortical areas that are neither motor or sensory but are thought to be involved in higher processing of information |
auditory area auditory cortex | the cortical area that receives auditory information from the medial geniculate body |
Broca's area Broca's center Broca's gyrus Broca's convolution convolution of Broca | the motor speech center in the left hemisphere of the brain in most people |
Brodmann's area | one of the cortical areas mapped out on the basis of its cytoarchitecture |
language area language zone | a large cortical area (in the left hemisphere in most people) containing all the centers associated with language |
motor area motor region motor cortex Rolando's area excitable area | the cortical area that influences motor movements |
sensorimotor area sensorimotor region | an area of the cortex including the precentral gyrus and the postcentral gyrus and combining sensory and motor functions |
visual area visual cortex | the cortical area that receives information from the lateral geniculate body of the thalamus |