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carvability

carvability noun: the quality of being carvable; workability with regard to carving.

Noun

carvability (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being carvable; workability with regard to carving.
    • The clinical characteristic selected for this test was the "limit of carvability," the amalgam consistency at which the dentist feels that further carving embodies an excessive risk of fracture. A punch test approximating pure shear loading was selected to measure this property. Results of...1956, Army Medical Service, “Oral Disease. RDB Project Card Continuation Sheet.”, in Consolidated R&D Annual Project Report, United States Army, page 610
    • None of the specifications, however, contains any method for determination of the carvability of the amalgam, and so far no correlation seems to have been shown between an objectively measurable property of dental amalgams and their carvability. It is the purpose of this work to investigate whether...1969, KD Jorgensen, K Isenoumi, “The relationship between tensile strength and carvability of dental amalgams”, in Acta Odontol Scand, volume 27, number 1, →DOI, →PMID, pages 47–54

Examples of carvability in a sentence

  • The clinical characteristic selected for this test was the "limit of carvability," the amalgam consistency at which the dentist feels that further carving embodies an excessive risk of fracture.1956, Army Medical Service, “Oral Disease. RDB Project Card Continuation Sheet.”, in Consolidated R&D Annual Project Report, United States...
  • It is the purpose of this work to investigate whether the carvability of amalgam is correlated with its tensile strength.1969, KD Jorgensen, K Isenoumi, “The relationship between tensile strength and carvability of dental amalgams”, in Acta Odontol Scand...

Forms of carvability

alternative formcarveability

Origin of carvability

From carve + -ability.

Questions about carvability

What does carvability mean?
Carvability means the quality of being carvable; workability with regard to carving.
How do you use carvability in a sentence?
The clinical characteristic selected for this test was the "limit of carvability," the amalgam consistency at which the dentist feels that further carving embodies an excessive risk of fracture.
What part of speech is carvability?
Carvability is a noun.

Words near carvability in the dictionary

  1. Carusones
  2. Caruth
  3. Caruthers
  4. Caruthersville
  5. Caruths
  6. carvability
  7. carvable
  8. carvacrol
  9. carvacrols
  10. carvacryl
  11. Carvajal

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