Overheating
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Overheating can refer to:
- Overheating of a technical device, for example, a car engine or a disk laser, increase of the temperature which leads to reduction of the efficiency, destructions or even damage. (see also Thermal shock.)
- Hyperthermia, a condition of a (human) body, called also sunstroke, the increase of the temperature which leads to the (temporal) loss of consciousness.
- Overheating (economics) rapid grow of production which is believed to have negative influence to the development of a country.
- See also: Thermal runaway