title: Heater (disambiguation)
text: # Heater (disambiguation)
  
  A heater is an appliance whose purpose is to generate heat for a building.
  
  Heater or Heaters may also refer to:
  
  ## Science, technology and engineering
  
  * Central heating, a system used to heat an entire building
  
  ### Devices
  
  * Aquarium heater, in fishkeeping, used to warm aquarium water
  * Boiler or heater, used to heat water for use in a heating system
  * Furnace or heater, used to heat buildings using a central system
  * Radiator (heating) or heater, used to transmit heat from a boiler
  * Space heater, that heats a single area
     * Gas heater, that heats a area using gas
     * Oil heater, that heats oil to heat a room
  
  ### Physics
  
  * Heating element, a device that converts electricity into heat
  * Cathode heater, in vacuum tubes and gas-filled tubes
     * Heater, a vacuum tube filament for an indirectly heated cathode in a vacuum tube
  
  ## Music
  
  * Heaters (band), an American rock band
  * "The Heater", a song by The Mutton Birds
  * "Heater" (Samim song), a song by Samim
  * "Heaters", a song on the IllScarlett album Clearly in Another Fine Mess
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * Heater, a slang term for a firearm, usually a handgun or revolver
  * Heater (surname)
  * Heater shield, a type of shield
  * Heaters, West Virginia, an unincorporated community in the US
  