Definition of heat sink
: a substance or device that absorbs or dissipates especially unwanted heat (as from a process or an electronic device)
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The case is pretty sleek and also comes with its own add-on board, heat sink, USB adapter (Type-A), and an mSATA socket for up to 1TB SSDs.
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Additionally, there is a heat sink built into the floor to reduce the demand for cold air through the cooling system and a method of inferring battery cell temperatures that means there's no need to monitor individual cells.
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Those long, narrow and deep lakes create the ideal climate for riesling, keeping the area cool in the summer and acting as a heat sink to retain warmth in colder seasons.
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The usual calm interaction with traffic control has been replaced with a breathless emergency message, and players need to fit heat sinks to their ships to avoid taking heat damage in the burning docking bays.
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To harness this natural quirk is to use deep space as a kind of heat sink.
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On WASP-1b, the titanium oxide works as a kind of heat sink, absorbing heat from the nearby star.
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First Known Use of heat sink
1936
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