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熱発生 (ねつはっせい) Japanese meaning | Kotomora

熱ねつ発はっ生せい

also: ねっぱつせい

ね

つ

は

っ

せ

い

Meanings

1

noun

heat generation; thermogenesis

Technical term used in physiology, biology, and engineering to describe the production of heat, especially by living organisms or chemical processes.

褐かっ色しょく脂し肪ぼう組そ織しきは熱発ねつはっ生せいに関かん与よしている。
Brown adipose tissue is involved in thermogenesis.
この化か学がく反はん応のうは激はげしい

熱発ねつはっ

生せい

を

伴ともな

う

。

This chemical reaction is accompanied by intense heat generation.

Written forms

熱発生
- ねつはっせい
  Standard kanji spelling; the reading ねつはっせい is the most common.
- ねっぱつせい
  Alternate reading; less common but still encountered in technical contexts.
ねっぱつせい

Kanji

熱heat, temperature, fever
発departure, discharge, publish
生life, genuine, birth

Similar words

発はつ熱ねつ
発熱 is a more general term for 'fever' or 'heat generation', while 熱発生 is a technical term specifically for thermogenesis or calorification in scientific contexts.

Etymology

Compound of 熱 (netsu, 'heat') and 発生 (hassei, 'generation'). The reading ねっぱつせい is a result of rendaku-like voicing and contraction, but the exact derivation is uncertain.