self-healing
self-healing adjective: capable of repairing itself. Also the present participle and gerund of self-heal.
Adjective
self-healing (not comparable)
- Capable of repairing itself.
- Indigenous bacteria, which naturally exist in specific environments, are being increasingly utilized in self-healing cement to promote calcite precipitation, a process that fills cracks and restores the material’s structural integrity [4,5].2024 October 10, Tiana Milović et al., “Enhancing Compressive Strength of Cement by Indigenous Individual and Co-Culture Bacillus Bacteria”, in Materials, volume 17, number 20, →DOI, archived from...
Noun
self-healing (uncountable)
- A process that allows a material to repair itself.
- This study also explores the role of environmental conditions, such as wet and wet–dry cycles, in optimizing the self-healing process, revealing that cyclic exposure conditions further improve the efficiency of strength recovery.2024 October 10, Tiana Milović et al., “Enhancing Compressive Strength of Cement by Indigenous Individual and Co-Culture Bacillus Bacteria”, in Materials, volume 17, number 20, →DOI, archived from...
Also used as
self-healing is also the present participle and gerund of self-heal.
Origin of self-healing
From self- + healing.
Questions about self-healing
- What does self-healing mean?
- Self-healing means capable of repairing itself.
- What part of speech is self-healing?
- Self-healing can be an adjective or a noun.
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