diathermanous

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English

Etymology

Ancient Greek to warm through.

Adjective

diathermanous (comparative more diathermanous, superlative most diathermanous)

  1. Having the property of transmitting radiant heat; diathermal.
    • 1871, James Clerk Maxwell, Theory of Heat, page 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. ...If the body is not perfectly diathermanous it stops more or less of the radiation, and becomes heated... instead of transmitting the whole radiation to bodies beyond it.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “diathermanous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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