- 1a piece of equipment that is used to heat a building, in which air or water is heated by burning gas or oil, and then pumped around the building
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- 2a space surrounded on all sides by walls and a roof for heating metal or glass to very high temperatures It's like a furnace (= very hot) in here! see blast furnace
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