dropcast
dropcast verb: to form a thin solid by dropping a solution onto a flat surface and evaporating the solvent.
Verb
dropcast (third-person singular simple present dropcasts, present participle dropcasting, simple past and past participle dropcast or (common, but sometimes proscribed) dropcasted)
- To form a thin solid by dropping a solution onto a flat surface and evaporating the solvent
- The NCs were dropcast on a glass substrate forming a close-packed film.2015 July 29, Sotirios Christodoulou et al., “Band structure engineering via piezoelectric fields in strained anisotropic CdSe/CdS nanocrystals”, in Nature Communications, volume 6, →DOI
Forms of dropcast
| third-person singular present | dropcasts |
|---|---|
| present participle | dropcasting |
| past participle | dropcast |
| past | dropcast |
| past participle common error-unknown-tag proscribed sometimes | dropcasted |
| past common error-unknown-tag proscribed sometimes | dropcasted |
Questions about dropcast
- What does dropcast mean?
- Dropcast means to form a thin solid by dropping a solution onto a flat surface and evaporating the solvent.
- What part of speech is dropcast?
- Dropcast is a verb.
- What is the past tense of dropcast?
- The past tense of dropcast is dropcast.
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