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.
- Asian Indians are the largest Asian American group in more than 20 US States, including New Jersey (at 228,250 followed by the next largest group Chinese at 122,931), Georgia (at 79,169 followed by 37,900 Koreans and 37,159 Vietnamese) and Illinois (at 157,126 followed by 103,059 Filipinos and 90,569 Chinese).