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A component or material that receives heat from a source and helps carry or release it elsewhere.
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- finned heat sink
- heat sink assembly
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Dust clogged the heat sink behind the panel.
The processor overheated after its heat sink detached.
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Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Singular heat sink; plural heat sinks. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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