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What does convection mean?

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Noun
  1. The process of conveying something.
  2. (physics) The transmission of heat in a fluid or gas by the circulation of currents.
  3. (meteorology) The vertical movement of heat and moisture, especially by updrafts and downdrafts in an unstable air mass. The terms convection and thunderstorm are often used interchangeably, although thunderstorms are only one form of convection. Towering cumulus clouds are visible forms of convection.
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The build-up of heat under the mantle initiates, at some point, the formation of convection.
Although its name would imply that it radiates heat, the radiator actually dissipates the coolant's heat not by radiation but by convection.
This convection results in the Sun's surface not being smooth, but covered with thousands of these globules, which are called granules.
This is the best time to avoid turbulence either from possible thunderstorms or heat convection from the sun.
When dissolved solids are carried along with the flowing groundwater, the process is called advective transport or convection.
A conventional gas or electric oven bakes bread with a lot of hot air, or convection.

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