heater Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) is the use of various technologies to control the temperature, humidity, and purity of the air in an enclosed space. Its goal is to provide thermal comfort and acceptable indoor air quality. ...

is an appliance whose purpose is to generate heat for a building. Heater or Heaters may also refer to:

Science, technology and engineering

Central heating A central heating system provides warmth to a number of spaces within a building from one main source of heat. It is a component of heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (short: HVAC) systems, which can both cool and warm interior spaces. ...

, a system used to heat an entire building

Devices

Aquarium heater An aquarium heater is a device used in the fishkeeping hobby to warm the temperature of water in aquariums. Most tropical Freshwater aquarium, freshwater and marine aquariums are maintained at temperatures that range from 22 to 30 °C (71-86&n ...

, in fishkeeping, used to warm aquarium water *

Boiler A boiler is a closed vessel in which fluid (generally water) is heated. The fluid does not necessarily boil. The heated or vaporized fluid exits the boiler for use in various processes or heating applications, including water heating, centr ...

or heater, used to heat water for use in a heating system *

Furnace A furnace is a structure in which heat is produced with the help of combustion. Furnace may also refer to: Appliances Buildings * Furnace (central heating): a furnace , or a heater or boiler , used to generate heat for buildings * Boiler, used t ...

or heater, used to heat buildings using a central system *

Radiator (heating) Radiators and convectors are heat exchangers designed to transfer thermal energy from one medium to another for the purpose of space heating. Denison Olmsted of New Haven, Connecticut, appears to have been the earliest person to use the term ...

or heater, used to transmit heat from a boiler * Space heater, that heats a single area **

Gas heater A gas heater is a space heater used to heat a room or outdoor area by burning natural gas, liquefied petroleum gas, propane or butane. Indoor household gas heaters can be broadly categorized in one of two ways: ''flued'' or ''non-flued,'' or '' ...

, that heats a area using gas **

Oil heater An oil heater, also known as an oil-filled heater, oil-filled radiator, or column heater, is a common form of convection heater used in domestic heating. Although filled with oil, it is electrically heated and does not involve burning any oil ...

, that heats oil to heat a room

Physics

Heating element A heating element converts electrical energy into heat through the process of Joule heating. Electric current through the element encounters resistance, resulting in heating of the element. Unlike the Peltier effect, this process is indepen ...

, a device that converts electricity into heat *

Cathode heater In vacuum tubes and gas-filled tubes, a hot cathode or thermionic cathode is a cathode electrode which is heated to make it emit electrons due to thermionic emission. This is in contrast to a cold cathode, which does not have a heating element. ...

, in vacuum tubes and gas-filled tubes ** Heater, a vacuum tube filament for an

indirectly heated cathode A vacuum tube, electron tube, valve (British usage), or tube (North America), is a device that controls electric current flow in a high vacuum between electrodes to which an electric potential difference has been applied. The type known as a ...

in a vacuum tube

Music

Heaters (band) Heaters is an American alternative rock band, formed in 2013 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The band is currently composed of singer-bassist Nolan Krebs, drummer Joshua Korf, guitarist Ryan Hagan and singer-guitarist Ben Taber. The band's original ...

, an American rock band * "

The Heater "The Heater" was the first single from '' Salty'', the second album by the New Zealand band, The Mutton Birds. Released early in 1994, it reached number one in the New Zealand music charts, their only number 1."Heater" (Samim song), a song by Samim * "Heaters", a song on the IllScarlett album ''

Clearly in Another Fine Mess IllScarlett (styled as illScarlett; ) is a Canadian rock and reggae band formed in 2001. Their most prominent influence is California-based band Sublime. The band found their break when they set up their equipment (using a generat ...

Other uses

* Heater, a

slang Slang is vocabulary (words, phrases, and linguistic usages) of an informal register, common in spoken conversation but avoided in formal writing. It also sometimes refers to the language generally exclusive to the members of particular in-gro ...

term for a

firearm A firearm is any type of gun designed to be readily carried and used by an individual. The term is legally defined further in different countries (see Legal definitions). The first firearms originated in 10th-century China, when bamboo tubes ...

, usually a

handgun A handgun is a short- barrelled gun, typically a firearm, that is designed to be usable with only one hand. It is distinguished from a long gun (i.e. rifle, shotgun or machine gun, etc.), which needs to be held by both hands and also braced ...

revolver A revolver (also called a wheel gun) is a repeating handgun that has at least one barrel and uses a revolving cylinder containing multiple chambers (each holding a single cartridge) for firing. Because most revolver models hold up to six roun ...

Heater (surname) Heater is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Chuck Heater Chuck Heater (born October 10, 1952) is an American football coach and former player. He was a running back for the University of Michigan from 1972 to 1974 and finished ...

Heater shield The heater shield or heater-shaped shield is a form of European medieval shield, developing from the early medieval kite shield in the late 12th century in response to the declining importance of the shield in combat thanks to improvements in ...

, a type of shield *

Heaters, West Virginia Heaters is an unincorporated community in Braxton County, West Virginia, United States. Heaters is situated approximately three miles north of Flatwoods on U.S. Route 19, which is a paved two-lane road. Access from I-79 is at exit 67 in Flatwo ...

, an unincorporated community in the US {{disambiguation