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refractoriness

refractoriness noun: the quality of being refractory.

Noun

refractoriness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being refractory.
    • Uncle loved the desnsity of the tungsten he made, and its refractoriness, its great chemical stability.2001, Oliver Sacks, Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood, Alfred A. Knopf (2001), 8

refractoriness meaning in Tamil and Kannada

refractoriness in Tamil

உயர்வெப்பம் தாங்கும் தன்மை

refractoriness in Kannada

ಮೂಜುವರಿ, ಮುಜೂರಿ

Origin of refractoriness

From refractory + -ness.

Questions about refractoriness

What does refractoriness mean?
Refractoriness means the quality of being refractory.
What is refractoriness in Tamil?
Refractoriness in Tamil is உயர்வெப்பம் தாங்கும் தன்மை. See Refractoriness meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is refractoriness?
Refractoriness is a noun.

Words near refractoriness in the dictionary

  1. refractometries
  2. refractometry
  3. refractor
  4. refractories
  5. refractorily
  6. refractoriness
  7. refractority
  8. refractors
  9. refractory
  10. refractory anaemia with excess blasts
  11. refractory metal

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Adapted from Wiktionary: refractoriness (page history and authors); refractoriness (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); refractoriness (Kannada Wiktionary) (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.

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