hardness
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4.8
- noun
- /ˈhɑrdnəs/
- Specialized
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dureza
- Because of its hardness and durability, Bakelite was considered a material for pennies during World War II.
- high hardness
- hardness testing
- Shore A hardness
The materials themselves will lose hardness and ductility and strength.
- The materials themselves will lose hardness and ductility and strength.
- And these properties could be something's hardness or it's flexibility or it's sharpness.
- That was a piece of hardened steel, and in fact, the fact of its hardness is what made it so easy to break.
- We just, you just distinguished the softness of asphalt in a street from the hardness of concrete on a sidewalk.
- So you're going to have a pen tip that's really hard and really fast for gliding across the screen, or one that's even softer than the HP hardness for slower drawing.
- One thing that I, I do often wonder about with my own physique is protein intake and muscle hardness.
- It's a certain way of talking about the atoms and the neurons, etcetera, that make up you, just like the hardness or the brownness of this table.
- Why does it have colours and textures and tastes and smells, hardness, softness, rocks, galaxies, if it's all made of nothing?
Examples
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So now we can check the hardness of the blades.
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Also, I should point out that hardness is related to strength.
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The material has a Shore A hardness rating of 70.
Academic text (2004) -
The differences in the mechanical properties and hardness between case and core are quite evident.
Blog text (16) -
The resulting diamond phase has the highest atom density and hardness of any of the materials known to man.
Academic text (1996) -
Then my skates hit the ice, and I felt the unrelenting hardness of it against my blades.
Fiction book (1996) -
The hardness of diamonds makes them ideal for cutting other materials.
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Geologists often measure the hardness of minerals using the Mohs scale.
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The hardness of the ice made it difficult for the skaters to achieve their moves.
Synonyms
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2.4
Being solid and not easily moved when pressed
A measure of how hard a very small part of a material is using special tools
Firmness that resists pressure, like a hard rock
Antonyms
How Hard
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word hardness comes from the old English root hard meaning 'firm' or 'strong' and the ending -ness meaning 'state'. So hardness measures how 'firm' something is and how well it keeps its shape when you press or scratch it.