superheat

Etymology

super- + heat

verb

1. To heat a liquid above its boiling point
2. To heat a vapour above its saturation point
3. To heat too much, to overheat.
   to superheat an oven

noun

1. The excess of temperature of a vapour above its temperature of saturation.
   In addition to all this, the fluidity of the steam itself was much increased by high superheat, usually achieved by means of the Houlet superheater. 1944 November and December, Lord Monkswell, “The French Four-Cylinder Compound Engine”, in Railway Magazine, page 326