hardening
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4.6
- noun
- /ˈhɑrdənɪŋ/
:
endurecimiento
- It works by UV hardening resin in a VAT.
It's going to harden or start the process of hardening a thought into form.
- It's going to harden or start the process of hardening a thought into form.
- As somebody who's who's made a lot of headway in terms of of solidifying or hardening the soft sciences.
- OK, so it's a softening that's also a hardening.
- Or also I have my personal regimen at the moment of having the hardening exercises also in the morning.
Examples
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Most importantly, epoxy offers 0.06 percent linear effective shrinkage upon hardening, compared to 0.6 to 1 percent shrinkage for the acrylate resins.
Academic text (1995) -
Weight bearing was not allowed for 3 to 4 hours setting time to assure sufficient hardening of the plaster inner shell.
Academic text (1995) -
The shear forces resulting from the extrusion contribute to the hardening of the material to form a long, strong fiber.
Academic text (1994) -
Higher temperatures during 2010 might have triggered the plant defense system to produce certain proteins causing hardening of the cotton crop; thus, less cell injury and more CMT were recorded during 2010 than in 2009.
Academic text (2014) -
After the hardening of the cement, the bulla was closed with muscles and connective tissue, and the wound sutured.
Academic text (1998) -
A valuable side effect of wire drawing is that cold-working aligns the metal grains and raises the tensile strength of most alloys; this hardening is not an unmixed blessing.
Academic text (2012) -
The hardening of concrete requires careful mixing to ensure durability.
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After undergoing the hardening process, the metal became much more resilient against damage.
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The hardening of the mixture took several hours, resulting in a strong and solid material.
Synonyms
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5.6
The change from soft to hard
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4.9
Something becomes hard and less flexible, for example in joints or fabric
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6.8
The change when a liquid or soft thing becomes hard, usually by cooling
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5.4
A process that makes a material hard by cooling or drying
A process of becoming hard when a liquid cools or a wet material dries
Solid crystals form when a liquid cools or dries
Small pieces of rock or sand become hard and form a solid mass
A process of heating and then cooling metal or glass to make it stronger
A process that hardens the surface of iron or steel by adding carbon
A change that makes something stiff and hard so it cannot bend
A process in which a material becomes stiff and hard to bend
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
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3.6
The walls of blood vessels become thick and hard, causing less blood to flow
How Hard
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Hardening comes from the simple parts hard and -en, where hard means 'firm' and -en means 'to make'. So hardening is the process of something becoming more solid or firm, like wet concrete turning into a hard block.