heat pump

noun

: an apparatus for heating or cooling (such as a building) by transferring heat by mechanical means from or to an external reservoir (such as the ground, water, or outside air)

Examples of heat pump in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

While the harbor itself can get pretty chilly in winter, the outdoor first-floor pools benefit from a sustainable vertical ground-source heat pump system providing year-round heating. — Laura Hall, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Oct. 2026

Electric vehicles, heat pumps, and weather-dependent solar and wind are adding variables that make these calculations more complicated and demand harder to predict. — Sam Birchall, Fortune, 29 Oct. 2026

To address this challenge, the team developed a two-stage heat pump capable of upgrading low-temperature waste heat into usable industrial steam. — Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 29 Oct. 2026

Former President Joe Biden also invoked the statute to support clean energy manufacturing and supply chains, including minerals used in electric vehicle batteries and the production of of energy-efficient heat pumps and insulation. — Miranda Jeyaretnam, Time, 23 Oct. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1894, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for heat pump

• bump
• chump
• clump
• crump
• dump
• gump
• hump
• jump
• lump
• plump
• rump
• slump

Kids Definition

heat pump

noun

: a device for heating or cooling a building by transferring heat contained in a fluid to or from the building