furnace

Noun
  1. An enclosed chamber in which heat is produced to heat buildings, destroy refuse, smelt or refine ores, etc. (synset 103409359)
    is a type of: chamber - a natural or artificial enclosed space
    subtypes:
    • athanor - a furnace that feeds itself so as to maintain a uniform temperature; used by alchemists
    • blast furnace - a furnace for smelting of iron from iron oxide ores; combustion is intensified by a blast of air
    • cremation chamber, crematorium, crematory - a furnace where a corpse can be burned and reduced to ashes
    • cupola - a vertical cylindrical furnace for melting iron for casting
    • electric furnace - any furnace in which the heat is provided by an electric current
    • firebox - a furnace (as on a steam locomotive) in which fuel is burned
    • forge - furnace consisting of a special hearth where metal is heated before shaping
    • gas furnace - a furnace that burns gas
    • incinerator - a furnace for incinerating (especially to dispose of refuse)
    • kiln - a furnace for firing or burning or drying such things as porcelain or bricks
    • oil burner, oil furnace - a furnace that burns oil
    • open-hearth furnace - a furnace for making steel in which the steel is placed on a shallow hearth and flames of burning gas and hot air play over it
    • reverberatory furnace - a furnace in which the material that is being treated is heated indirectly by flames that are directed at the roof and walls of the furnace
    • tank furnace - furnace into one end of which a batch of measured raw materials is shoveled and from the other end molten glass is obtained
    has:
    • grate, grating - a frame of iron bars to hold a fire
    • register - a regulator (as a sliding plate) for regulating the flow of air into a furnace or other heating device

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