heat sink

heat sink
1. Thermodynam. any environment or medium that absorbs heat.
2. Also, heatsink. Electronics. a metallic heat exchanger designed to absorb and dissipate excess heat from one of the devices, as a transistor or resistor, in a circuit.
[1935-40]

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