What does warming mean?

Definitions for warming
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This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word warming.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. heating, warmingnoun

    the process of becoming warmer; a rising temperature

  2. thaw, thawing, warmingadjective

    warm weather following a freeze; snow and ice melt

    "they welcomed the spring thaw"

  3. warmingadjective

    imparting heat

    "a warming fire"

  4. calefacient, warmingadjective

    producing the sensation of heat when applied to the body

    "a mustard plaster is calefacient"

Wiktionary

  1. warmingnoun

    A small rise in temperature.

ChatGPT

  1. warming

    Warming refers to the process of becoming or making something hot or hotter, typically involving an increase in temperature, often associated with physical or atmospheric changes. At the larger scale, it can also refer to global warming, denoting the long-term increase in Earth's average temperature associated with climate change. In general, any situation or process where there's an increase in heat or warmth can essentially be termed as 'warming'.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Warming

    of Warm

  2. Warming

    a. & n. from Warm, v

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. WARMING

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Warming is ranked #149395 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Warming surname appeared 110 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Warming.

    96.3% or 106 total occurrences were White.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of warming in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of warming in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of warming in a Sentence

  1. Ted Shepherd:

    This paper adds to the growing evidence that the simple paradigm of 'wet-gets-wetter, dry-gets-drier' under a warming climate does not apply over land areas.

  2. James Hansen:

    I would like to draw three main conclusions, number one, the Earth is warmer in 1988 than at any time in the history of instrumental measurements. Number two, the global warming is now large enough that we can ascribe with a high degree of confidence a cause and effect relationship to the greenhouse effect. And number three, our computer climate simulations indicate that the greenhouse effect is already large enough to begin to affect the probability of extreme events such as summer heat waves.

  3. Gavin Schmidt:

    This warming has been driven in large part by increased emissions into the atmosphere of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases caused by human activities.

  4. Mike Casca:

    Tens of millions are uninsured while coronavirus spreads, the planet is warming at an accelerating rate, working people haven't seen a real raise in decades, and Former Vice President Joe Biden is worried about some damn tweets ? let's try to stay focused on the big issues.

  5. President Emmanuel Macron:

    What we're seeing with the evolution of The Mer de Glace glacier is indisputable proof of the trace of this( global) warming and( climate) imbalance, and essentially of the shift of an entire ecosystem...

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Translations for warming

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  • потепле́ние, согрева́ниеRussian

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