Definition of Hypocaust. Meaning of Hypocaust. Synonyms of Hypocaust

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Definition of Hypocaust

Hypocaust
Hypocaust Hyp"o*caust, n. [L. hypocaustum, Gr. ?; ? under + ? to burn: cf. F. hypocauste.] (Anc. Arch.) A furnace, esp. one connected with a series of small chambers and flues of tiles or other masonry through which the heat of a fire was distributed to rooms above. This contrivance, first used in bath, was afterwards adopted in private houses.

Meaning of Hypocaust from wikipedia

- A hypocaust (Latin: hypocaustum) is a system of central heating in a building that produces and circulates hot air below the floor of a room, and may...
- The Hypocaust Museum is a museum at St Albans, Hertfordshire, England. Situated in Verlamium Park, the museum provides in situ conservation and interpretation...
- and private baths and latrines, under-floor heating in the form of the hypocaust, mica glazing (examples in Ostia Antica), and piped hot and cold water...
- construction of public baths. Elite housing in cooler climates might have hypocausts, a form of central heating. The Romans were the first culture to ****emble...
- Vitruvius (in his famous book De architectura) to have invented the hypocaust. The hypocaust is an underfloor heating system that was used throughout the Roman...
- beginning in the Middle Ages. It is a direct descendant of the Roman hypocaust, and its feature of regulating the rate of combustion allows people to...
- suites (thermae) and many would have had under-floor heating known as the hypocaust. The late Roman Republic witnessed an explosion of villa construction...
- room, effectively making it a ducted heating system similar to the Roman hypocaust. A separate stove may be used to control the amount of smoke circulating...
- credited with inventing the cultivation of oysters and refinement to the hypocaust method of heating a building to provide, in addition, heated water for...
- floor has deteriorated and is missing, with only parts of the hypocaust columns remaining. Hot air circulated through the hypocaust to heat the house....