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plastify

plastify verb: to make or become plastic or malleable.

Verb

plastify (third-person singular simple present plastifies, present participle plastifying, simple past and past participle plastified)

  1. To make or become plastic or malleable.
    • Mixer 4 may be any conventional single screw or twin-screw extruder equipped with heating means to plastify the thermoplastic resin mix therein.1977, Maurice William Ranney, Reinforced plastics and elastomers: recent developments, page 144
    • At a soft initial deformation response, all cross-sections or loaded layers within the gauge length of the specimen may not plastify due to the variation of the actual load-bearing area along the specimen.1996, Metal Powder Industries Federation, APMI International, American Powder Metallurgy Institute, Advances in Powder Metallurgy & Particulate Materials

Examples of plastify in a sentence

  • Some materials have a distinctly defined yield point, e.g. most steels, whereas other materials start to plastify gradually at very low stresses.2006, Karl U. Kainer, Magnesium:
  • Well, I can't identify the spell that was cast – other than that it required a large amount of magic – which would fit in with a shrink and plastify.2010, Chris Dolley, Magical Crimes: Twenty-Four Inches From Tulsa:

Forms of plastify

third-person singular presentplastifies
present participleplastifying
past participleplastified
pastplastified

Origin of plastify

From plastic + -ify.

Words formed from plastify

Questions about plastify

What does plastify mean?
Plastify means to make or become plastic or malleable.
How do you use plastify in a sentence?
Some materials have a distinctly defined yield point, e.g. most steels, whereas other materials start to plastify gradually at very low stresses.
What part of speech is plastify?
Plastify is a verb.
What is the past tense of plastify?
The past tense of plastify is plastified.

Words near plastify in the dictionary

  1. plastifications
  2. plastified
  3. plastifier
  4. plastifiers
  5. plastifies
  6. plastify
  7. plastifying
  8. plastiglass
  9. plastiglomerate
  10. plastiglomerates
  11. plastilina

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