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dropcasting

dropcasting is the present participle and gerund of dropcast.

Meaning of dropcast

Verb

dropcast (third-person singular simple present dropcasts, present participle dropcasting, simple past and past participle dropcast or (common, but sometimes proscribed) dropcasted)

  1. 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

Questions about dropcasting

What is dropcasting the present participle and gerund of?
Dropcasting is the present participle and gerund of dropcast.

Words near dropcasting in the dictionary

  1. dropbox
  2. dropboxes
  3. dropcake
  4. dropcakes
  5. dropcast
  6. dropcasting
  7. dropcloth
  8. dropcloths
  9. dropdown
  10. dropdown list
  11. dropdown lists

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