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A device that transfers heat between separate fluids or systems, often without mixing them.
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- heat exchanger coil
- damaged heat exchanger
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The heat exchanger warmed the incoming air.
A leak in the heat exchanger contaminated the cooling circuit.
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Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Singular heat exchanger; plural heat exchangers. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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