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.
And that attracted more.â. The number of Asians in the region grew 60 percent over the past decade. While four out of 10 Asian Americans live on the West Coast, Washington has turned into a hub for Asians on the East Coast. It has the nationâs fourth-highest concentration of Asian Indians and Koreans. On the East Coast, Boston is the only city with a higher percentage of Chinese.