HVAC Terminology

The process of subjecting substances like food or drink to cold in order to chill or preserve it....

• Global Warming

• Heat

• Refrigeration

• Greenhouse effect

Term used to describe our ability, as humans, to exist, without jeopardizing the ability of future generations to do the same.

• Global Warming or Greenhouse effect

• Sustainability

• Green

• Sustainable Design

An earth warming process caused by the atmosphere’s absorption of the heat energy radiated from the earth’s surface.

• Refrigeration

• Heat

• Sustainability

• Global Warming or Greenhouse effect

Meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of the future generations to meet their own needs.

• Sustainability

• Sustainable Design

• Global Warming or Greenhouse effect

• Green

Companies looking to go “Green” incorporate sustainable design into their building and facilities.

• Global Warming or Green effect

• Sustainable Design

• Green

• Sustainability

urban air or surface temperatures that are higher than nearby areas.

• Heat

• temperature or heat instensity

• pressure

• Heat Island

energy that causes molecules to be in motion and to raise the temperature of a substance.

• Heat Island

• Heat

• temperature or heat intensity

• pressure

word used to describe the level of heat or molecular activity, expressed in Fahrenheit, Rankine, Celsius, or Kelvin units. Another word for it is heat intensity.

• temperature

• heat island

• heat

• pressure

force per unit of area.

• heat island

• heat

• pressure

• temperature or heat intensity

The weight of the atmosphere’s gases pressing down on the earth. We use the term when we refer to weather conditions.

• temperature or heat intensity

• pressure

• atmospheric pressure

• heat island