Word.ws English Dictionary

microhard

US/ˈmaɪkɹəˌhɑɹd/

microhard adjective: having microscopic hard particles.

Adjective

microhard (not comparable)

  1. Having microscopic hard particles.
    • It is shown that although the grain boundaries (GBs) in the discrete simulations are impenetrable, an infinite GB yield strength corresponding to microhard GB conditions, is not applicable in the continuum model.2015, E. Bayerschen, M. Stricker, S. Wulfinghoff, D. Weygand, T. Böhlke, “Equivalent Plastic Strain Gradient Plasticity with Grain Boundary Hardening and Comparison to Discrete Dislocation Dynamics”...

Origin of microhard

From micro- + hard.

Words formed from microhard

Questions about microhard

What does microhard mean?
Microhard means having microscopic hard particles.
What part of speech is microhard?
Microhard is an adjective.
How do you pronounce microhard?
Microhard is pronounced /ˈmaɪkɹəˌhɑɹd/ (US).

Words near microhard in the dictionary

  1. microhalo
  2. microhaloes
  3. microhalos
  4. microhaplotype
  5. microhaplotypes
  6. microhard
  7. microhardness
  8. microhardnesses
  9. microharvester
  10. microharvesters
  11. microheater

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: microhard (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “microhard.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/microhard. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.