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, 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 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 ** Heater, a vacuum tube filament for an indirectly heated cathode in a vacuum tube

Music

* Heaters (band), an American rock band * " The Heater", a song by The Mutton Birds * "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-g ...

term for a firearm, usually a handgun or revolver *

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 i ...

, 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