radiator
nounA heating device consisting of a series of connected pipes, typically inside an upright metal structure, through which steam or hot water is circulated so as to radiate heat into the surrounding space.
nounA cooling device, as in automotive engines, through which water or other fluids circulate as a coolant.
nounA body that emits radiation.
nounA transmitting antenna.
nounSame as
In the transmission of electric waves, as in wireless telegraphy, an apparatus for the emission of electric oscillations; a form of oscillator.
nounAnything which radiates; a body or substance from which rays of heat emanate or radiate.
nounA part of a heating apparatus designed to communicate heat to a room, chiefly by convection, but partly, in some cases, by radiation.
nounThat which radiates or emits rays, whether of light or heat; especially, that part of a heating apparatus from which the heat is radiated or diffused.
nounAny of various devices for cooling an internal substance by radiation, as a system of rings on a gun barrel for cooling it, or a nest of tubes with large radiating surface for cooling circulating water, as in an automobile.