The phrase "an overheating of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a situation where something is becoming excessively hot, often in technical or scientific contexts.
Example: "The report indicated an overheating of the engine, which could lead to serious damage if not addressed promptly."
Alternatives: "a rise in temperature of" or "an excessive heating of".
The resulting monetary policy may have contributed to an overheating of the economy in 1997-98.
Fred Hu, chief China economist for Goldman Sachs, says the currency peg is contributing to an overheating of the domestic economy.
But an "overheating" of the Brazilian economy is not one of them.José Gilberto Scandiucci Filho Economic adviser to Brazil's finance minister BrasíliaSIR – The argument that the gold price is far too high for a metal with few industrial uses is a common, and weak, one ("The wacky world of gold", June 4th).
It was found that the cold bed was able to remove the heat of reaction efficiently to prolong an overheating of the catalyst bed.
However, part of it is due to thermal radiation that causes an overheating of the refrigerator freezer surfaces adjacent to those equipments.
Deviations as a temperature increase of the cooling medium or no cooling medium flow can produce an overheating of the reactor.
— or SpaceX — has come under criticism because it did not disclose until last week a brief overheating of the engines during an otherwise highly successful test flight last December.
Yet the tension in their bodies and outbreaks of raw reflex violence warn of a collective overheating of emotion.
The rate reduction was an abrupt turnabout for the Fed, which only months ago was far more worried about the prospect of an overheating economy igniting inflation than about the possibility of a recession.
The results of this work indicate that the overheating of an adsorbent particle is a very rapid process which is followed by a slow cooling of the hot particle.
In an attempt to reduce overheating of highly active catalyst particles, a prepolymerization step is introduced to control catalyst activity and, thus, particle morphology during the early growth of catalyst particles.
