sinter
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From German Sinter.
Pronunciation [edit]
Noun [edit]
sinter (plural sinters)
- (geology) An alluvial sediment deposited by a mineral spring.
- 1883 June, John Magens Mello, Quartz: its Varieties and Formation, in Popular Science Monthly, Volume 23,
- That water at a high temperature can hold quartz in solution is well illustrated by the deposits of silicious sinter, thrown down by thermal springs, […]
- 1913, David Paul Gooding, Picturesque New Zealand, Chapter V,
- It has steaming lakes, pools, and streams, healing baths and springs, acidulous basins of emerald, opal, and orange, and tinted terraces of sinter.
- 1883 June, John Magens Mello, Quartz: its Varieties and Formation, in Popular Science Monthly, Volume 23,
- A mass formed by sintering.
- 2008, John Banhart, Advanced Tomographic Methods in Materials Research and Engineering, page 55,
- Consider a copper sinter material with spherical sinter particles in an early stage of the sintering process, see Fig. 3.5(a).
- 2008, John Banhart, Advanced Tomographic Methods in Materials Research and Engineering, page 55,
- A mixture of iron ore and fluxes added to a blast furnace.
Verb [edit]
sinter (third-person singular simple present sinters, present participle sintering, simple past and past participle sintered)
- To compact and heat a powder to form a solid mass.
- 1980, Advanced Automation for Space Missions: Appendix 4C, in Proceedings of the 1980 NASA/ASEE Summer Study,
- Most, if not all, metals may be sintered.
- 1980, Advanced Automation for Space Missions: Appendix 4C, in Proceedings of the 1980 NASA/ASEE Summer Study,
Translations [edit]
to compact and heat a powder to form a solid mass
Anagrams [edit]
German [edit]
Verb [edit]
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