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 |
distribution | the act of distributing or spreading or apportioning |
distribution | the commercial activity of transporting and selling goods from a producer to a consumer |
distribution channel channel | a way of selling a company's product either directly or via distributors, possible distribution channels are wholesalers or small retailers or retail chains or direct mailers or your own stores |
boiler steam boiler | sealed vessel where water is converted to steam |
calliope steam organ | a musical instrument consisting of a series of steam whistles played from a keyboard |
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 |
distribution dispersion | the spatial or geographic property of being scattered about over a range, area, or volume, worldwide in distribution, the distribution of nerve fibers, in complementary distribution |
complementary distribution complementation | (linguistics) a distribution of related speech sounds or forms in such a way that they only appear in different contexts |
distribution statistical distribution | (statistics) an arrangement of values of a variable showing their observed or theoretical frequency of occurrence |
distribution law | (chemistry) the total energy in an assembly of molecules is not distributed equally but is distributed around an average value according to a statistical distribution |
Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution law Boltzmann distribution law | (physics) a law expressing the distribution of energy among the molecules of a gas in thermal equilibrium |
nonparametric statistic distribution free statistic | a statistic computed without knowledge of the form or the parameters of the distribution from which observations are drawn |
frequency distribution | a distribution of observed frequencies of occurrence of the values of a variable |
normal distribution Gaussian distribution | a theoretical distribution with finite mean and variance |
Poisson distribution | a theoretical distribution that is a good approximation to the binomial distribution when the probability is small and the number of trials is large |
sample distribution sample sampling | items selected at random from a population and used to test hypotheses about the population |
binomial distribution Bernoulli distribution | a theoretical distribution of the number of successes in a finite set of independent trials with a constant probability of success |
distribution list | list of names to whom a communication should be sent |
distribution agreement | a contract governing the marketing of an item of merchandise |
distribution cost | any cost incurred by a producer or wholesaler or retailer or distributor (as for advertising and shipping etc) |
steam coal | coal suitable for use under steam boilers |
steam | water at boiling temperature diffused in the atmosphere |
live steam | steam coming from a boiler at full pressure |
steam | cook something by letting steam pass over it, just steam the vegetables |
steam steam clean | clean by means of steaming, steam-clean the upholstered sofa |
steam | get very angry, her indifference to his amorous advances really steamed the young man |
steamer steam | travel by means of steam power, The ship steamed off into the Pacific |
steam | rise as vapor |
steam-heat | heat by means of steam |
steam | emit steam, The rain forest was literally steaming |
steam-powered | powered by a steam engine, a steam-powered locomotive |