regenerative furnace

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Noun[edit]

regenerative furnace (plural regenerative furnaces)

  1. (metallurgy) A furnace having a regenerator in which gas used for fuel, and air for supporting combustion, are heated; a Siemens furnace.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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