Heat (disambiguation)
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Heat, in physics, is energy which is spontaneously flowing from an object with a high temperature to an object with a lower temperature.
Heat can also refer to:
In physics:
- Thermal energy, the sum of a body's latent and sensible forms of energy (sometimes confused with "heat")
- Heating, the act of increasing temperature
Publications:
- Heat (magazine), a British magazine
- Heat (manga), a manga written by Yoshiyuki Okamura
- Heat: How to Stop the Planet Burning, a book by George Monbiot
- Heat (book), a book by Mike Lupica
In film:
- Heat (film), 1995 film by Michael Mann, starring Al Pacino and Robert De Niro
- Heat (1986 film), 1986 film starring Burt Reynolds
- Heat (1972 film), 1972 film starring Sylvia Miles and Joe Dallesandro
In sports:
- Heat Wave, ECW PPV
- Guildford Heat, a British Basketball League Team
- Heat (professional wrestling), applause or booing given by fans to a professional wrestler
- Laredo Heat a United Soccer Leagues Premier Development League soccer team
- Miami Heat, a National Basketball Association team
- WWE Heat, a professional wrestling television program
- Heat, in baseball, a colloquialism for a fastball
- Heat, in racing, a preliminary race, used to determine the participants in a later race
In music:
- Heat (band), a Christian band from Salford, United Kingdom
- "Heat" (song), a song by rapper 50 Cent
Other:
- Heat, in the biological estrous cycle, a period of increased sexual drive
- High Explosive Anti-Tank, in military technology, a shell with a shaped charge
- Pungency, the hotness or spiciness of foods such as pepper, garlic and chili peppers
- Scoville Heat Unit, a unit of measurement used to determine the strength of chili pepper
- Heat (software), a help desk software package by FrontRange Solutions
- Heat, in slang, a firearm, usually a pistol
- Heat, in slang, police surveillance or attention
- Heat, a protagonist in the Digital Devil Saga video-game series
- A Cantonese food classification
[edit] See also
- Hīt, Iraq (pronounced "Heat")