athermanous

English

Etymology

Ancient Greek privative + to heat: compare French athermane.

Adjective

athermanous (not comparable)

  1. Not transmitting heat.
    • 1871, James Clerk Maxwell, Theory of Heat, p. 13:
      Substances which admit of radiation taking place through them are called Diathermanous. Those which do not allow heat to pass through them without becoming themselves hot are called Athermanous.

Antonyms

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for athermanous in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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