central heating

noun

: a system that heats all parts of a building
The house has central heating.

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Bathtub, indoor fireplace, central heating, backyard with furniture, free parking. Nicole Kliest, Vogue, 12 Oct. 2025 Air-to-water heat pumps still take heat from outside air, but instead of heating the air in a home, it’s fed into a wet central heating system which works kind of like gas central heating. Sara Kiley Watson, Popular Science, 2 Oct. 2025 Neuschwanstein featured many modern innovations, including flushing toilets, an internal telephone system and central heating, per the castle’s website. Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 July 2025 During the past two years, corridors and meeting rooms of the Palais des Nations have been occasionally kept in the dark, central heating and elevators cut to save on the very inflated Swiss electricity bills. Isabelle Mayault, The Dial, 8 July 2025

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“Central heating.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/central%20heating. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.

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