How to Use heat sink in a Sentence

heat sink

noun
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  • Once that's heated up and pried off, you'll be greeted with a large graphite heat sink.
    — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 26 July 2022
  • To harness this natural quirk is to use deep space as a kind of heat sink.
    — Joseph Dussault, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Oct. 2017
  • Cooling such a massive chip requires more than just a heat sink and a fan.
    — Mark Hachman, PCWorld, 19 Aug. 2019
  • The probe heats up one side of the generator, and a heat sink (4) ensures the other side stays cool.
    — Kevin Dupzyk, Popular Mechanics, 15 Mar. 2017
  • One of the largest possible sources of error comes from the thermal expansion of the heat sink attached to the device.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 22 Nov. 2016
  • That sheet of copper is not connected to some larger heat sink.
    — Jim Salter, Ars Technica, 21 June 2020
  • Those interiors sit on a substrate, are in an enclosure, and maybe have a heat sink on the top.
    — Zenger News, Forbes, 29 June 2021
  • For all those CPUs above that don't come with their own heat sink, this liquid cooling module could be a great option.
    — Eric Ravenscraft, Wired, 29 Nov. 2021
  • This is true for the liquid cooling systems in current use, which use the liquid to replace the metal heat sink.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 9 Sep. 2020
  • During the summer months, the water carries heat out of the home and releases it deep into the soil, allowing the ground to serve as a heat sink.
    — Timothy Dale, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 July 2022
  • The rendering from Nvidia’s video (seen in the screenshot below) also shows a heat sink stack on the side that looks identical to the cooler design in the leaks.
    — Gordon Mah Ung, PCWorld, 26 Aug. 2020
  • On WASP-1b, the titanium oxide works as a kind of heat sink, absorbing heat from the nearby star.
    — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 13 Sep. 2017
  • Austin Evans discovered that the console’s heat sink - which absorbs heat and removes it from the PS5 - is 300g lighter than the original model.
    — Janhoi McGregor, Forbes, 11 Sep. 2021
  • The idea is simple: coat a 0.5- to 1-millimeter-thick hydrogel layer on an aluminum heat sink.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 30 Dec. 2022
  • Now line up your heat sink with the screws surrounding your processor, and gently lower it into place.
    — Jess Grey, Wired, 7 June 2020
  • Now line up your heat sink with the screws surrounding your processor, and gently lower it into place.
    — Jaina Grey Louryn Strampe, WIRED, 4 Nov. 2022
  • Graphcore also had to create a custom heat sink to keep the processors cool, despite the playful designs.
    — Chaim Gartenberg, The Verge, 26 Nov. 2018
  • That's because the liquid gallium TIM allowed Sony to get the same cooling performance from a cheaper heat sink.
    — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 19 Oct. 2020
  • Those long, narrow and deep lakes create the ideal climate for riesling, keeping the area cool in the summer and acting as a heat sink to retain warmth in colder seasons.
    — Michael Austin, chicagotribune.com, 7 Feb. 2018
  • The aluminum enclosure has a solid, ridged heat sink on the bottom to make sure your drive doesn't cook itself during operation.
    — Anthony Karcz, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2022
  • That heat can be bled off into a heat sink, and when the pressure is removed the molecules go back to being disordered and the temperature falls even further.
    — Brian Owens, Discover Magazine, 17 May 2019
  • The temperature difference between the heat source and the heat sink has to be quite large before any reasonable amount of energy is transferred.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 11 Sep. 2018
  • It is equipped with a heat sink, and its aluminum base also facilitates heat dissipation.
    — Tony Hoffman, PCMAG, 9 May 2022
  • The bundle linked below includes a dedicated 2.4A power supply, which should keep the Pi running at its best, as well as a couple of heat sinks to keep the whole thing cool during more involved tasks.
    — Jeff Dunn, Ars Technica, 13 June 2018
  • Later testing showed last year's weight reduction was due to a smaller, redesigned heat sink that seemed to improve the console's heat dissipation.
    — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 29 Aug. 2022
  • Materials need to be added between the cells to act as a heat sink, stopping high temperatures from moving beyond an exploding cell.
    — Loren Grush, The Verge, 17 Aug. 2018
  • The black hole itself is an ideal heat sink, the researchers argue, and usable energy can come from the cosmic microwave background (CMB), weak radiation from the big bang that permeates space.
    — Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 4 Feb. 2020
  • To that end, it's built a thermal spreader heat sink that's three times larger than in the S9+ to cool down serious graphics loads, delivering 20 percent better cooling performance.
    — Michael Simon, PCWorld, 9 Aug. 2018
  • Engineers design the computers themselves to maximize airflow, spacing out components on the circuit boards, building in fans and heat sinks so the machines don’t overheat and conk out.
    — Mike Rogoway | [email protected], oregonlive, 26 Jan. 2023
  • The usual calm interaction with traffic control has been replaced with a breathless emergency message, and players need to fit heat sinks to their ships to avoid taking heat damage in the burning docking bays.
    — Lee Hutchinson, Ars Technica, 15 Dec. 2017

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