overheating

overheating

1. present participle and gerund of overheat

overheating (countable and uncountable, plural overheatings)

1. A situation where something is overheated.
   • 1964, Metal Mining & Processing, volume 1, page 32:

     Even if no weakening effects were noticed after one or two overheatings, the cumulative heat effects would cause embrittlement and failure after subsequent overheatings.

2. (economics) The situation where the productive capacity of an economy is unable to keep pace with growing aggregate demand, generally characterised by a below-average rate of economic growth, where growth is occurring at an unsustainable rate.