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What does convect mean?

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Verb
  1. To carry or convey; to move (a warm fluid) upward through a cooler fluid, to transfer heat or a fluid by convection.
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A small grille just above the keyboard serves as an exit for the heat-pipe used to convect heat away from the processor.
The water above the springs does not convect when it is cold.
Apparently, the interiors of the Moon, Mercury, and Mars are either too rigid or have lost too much of their internal heat to convect and drive plate tectonics.
The upper end of the heater was adiabatic, while the bottom end could convect with the borehole fluid.
If the magnetospheric electric field remained steady, the particles drifting around the Earth would lose their energy on the dayside and convect to the magnetopause, where they would be lost to the solar wind.
The work suggested iron could be even more conductive as temperature climbs, and therefore less likely to convect, than previously thought.

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