HEATSINK

Heat sink

In electronic systems, a heat sink is a passive heat exchanger that cools a device by dissipating heat into the surrounding medium. In computers, heat sinks are used to cool central processing units or graphics processors. Heat sinks are used with high-power semiconductor devices such as power transistors and optoelectronics such as lasers and light emitting diodes, where the heat dissipation ability of the basic device is insufficient to moderate its temperature.

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heat sink

Noun

  1. An object, system or environment that absorbs and dissipates heat from objects in thermal contact (either direct or radiant) with it.
  2. A place toward which the heat moves in a system.
  3. A material capable of absorbing heat.


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heatsink

Noun

Verb

  1. To fit with a heat sink.


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