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hardcoat

hardcoat noun: a coating that provides a hard, protective layer.

Noun

hardcoat (countable and uncountable, plural hardcoats)

  1. A coating that provides a hard, protective layer.
    • Another transparent material for passivation is silicon nitride, Si₃N₄, that also acts as hardcoat.2012, Michael Quinten, A Practical Guide to Optical Metrology for Thin Films
    • Such brute-force tactics generally fail for hardcoats on flexible substrates and there seems to be no correlation between scratch resistance and modulus once a certain minimum modulus (~1 GPa) has been reached.2013, Steven Abbott, Nigel Holmes, Nanocoatings: Principles and Practice: From Research to Production, page 255

Forms of hardcoat

pluralhardcoats

Origin of hardcoat

From hard + coat.

Questions about hardcoat

What does hardcoat mean?
Hardcoat means a coating that provides a hard, protective layer.
What part of speech is hardcoat?
Hardcoat is a noun.
What is the plural of hardcoat?
The plural of hardcoat is hardcoats.

Words near hardcoat in the dictionary

  1. hardcase
  2. hardcases
  3. Hardcastle
  4. Hardcastles
  5. hardcoal
  6. hardcoat
  7. hardcoats
  8. hardcode
  9. hardcoded
  10. hardcodes
  11. hardcoding

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