Heat sink (disambiguation)
The term heat sink may refer to:
- Heat sink, a component used to conduct heat away from an object
- Thermal energy storage, a number of technologies that store energy in a thermal reservoir for later reuse
- Urban heat island, an urban area with a tendency to absorb sunlight at much higher rates than the natural landscape
- A heat reservoir which can absorb arbitrary amounts of energy without changing temperature
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