convecção
Portuguese, noun
convecção is spelled C-O-N-V-E-C-Ç-Ã-O (9 letters) and appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese, the 64,715th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Convecção is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “convection (the transmission of heat in a fluid by the circulation of currents)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “forma de transmissão do calor que ocorre principalmente nos fluidos (líquidos e gases)”.
What does convecção mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineconvection (the transmission of heat in a fluid by the circulation of currents)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. forma de transmissão do calor que ocorre principalmente nos fluidos (líquidos e gases)
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of convecção
- convecções plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to convecção
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is convecção in Portuguese?
convecção appears about once in every 4 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).