oil burner, oil furnace-a furnace that burns oil. open-hearth furnace-a furnace for making steel in which the steel is placed on a shallow hearth and flames of burning gas and hot air play over it. register-a regulator (as a sliding plate) for regulating the flow of air into a furnace or other heating device.. An enclosure in which energy in a nonthermal form is converted to heat, especially such an enclosure in which heat is generated by the combustion of a suitable fuel. 2. An intensely hot place: the furnace of the sun; an attic room that is a furnace in the summer.
The demographics of Asian Americans describe a heterogeneous group of people in the United States who trace their ancestry to one or more Asian countries. Because Asian Americans total about 5.6% of the entire US population, diversity within the group is often overlooked in media treatment.
It also has the largest absolute population of Asian Americans of any US state. There are 5,556,592 Asian Americans out of the stateâs population of 37,253,956, as per the 2010 census. California's Asian-American population of about 5.6 million is nearly 1.5 million higher than it was in the 2000 Census, and more than three times as large as New York's, which was approximately 1.6 million.