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- Dictionaryspe·cif·ic heat
noun
- 1. the heat required to raise the temperature of the unit mass of a given substance by a given amount (usually one degree).
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- Specific heat capacity
Intensive quantity, heat capacity per mass
In thermodynamics, the specific heat capacity (symbol c) of a substance is the amount of heat that must be added to one unit of mass of the substance in order to cause an increase of one unit in temperature. It is also referred to as massic heat capacity or as the specific heat. More formally it is the heat capacity of a sample of the substance divided by the mass of the sample. The SI unit of spe... Wikipedia
