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ballize

ballize verb: to burnish (metal) by a technique that involves pushing an oversized ball through a hole.

Verb

ballize (third-person singular simple present ballizes, present participle ballizing, simple past and past participle ballized)

  1. (transitive) To burnish (metal) by a technique that involves pushing an oversized ball through a hole.
    • It is possible to ballize stainless steel1982, Engineering Materials and Design, volume 26, page 11
  2. (intransitive) To undergo such a process.
    • Metals that ballize successfully are: Sintered iron, sintered brass and other sintered materials. Aluminium, brass, bronze, copper, lead and cadmium. Mild and tool steels. […]1971, Science and Australian Technology, volumes 9-12, page 16

Forms of ballize

third-person singular presentballizes
present participleballizing
past participleballized
pastballized

Origin of ballize

From ball + -ize.

Questions about ballize

What does ballize mean?
Ballize means to burnish (metal) by a technique that involves pushing an oversized ball through a hole.
What part of speech is ballize?
Ballize is a verb.
What is the past tense of ballize?
The past tense of ballize is ballized.

Words near ballize in the dictionary

  1. ballistospory
  2. ballists
  3. ballistæ
  4. ballium
  5. balliums
  6. ballize
  7. ballized
  8. ballizes
  9. ballizing
  10. balljoint
  11. balljoints

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