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réchauffement

warming, reheating

noun reh-shohf-MAHN Rare
Animals & Nature Weather

Origin: French 'réchauffer' (to rewarm) + '-ment'

Usage Note

Réchauffement is best known in the compound réchauffement climatique ('global warming'), now a central term in French environmental discourse. It can also refer literally to the reheating of food or a rise in temperature. The opposite is refroidissement.

Examples

"Le réchauffement climatique menace les glaciers alpins."

Natural Translation

Global warming threatens the Alpine glaciers.

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