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• Steels used in salt water typically require a pitting resistance equivalent number of at least 40.From the entry pitting resistance equivalent number
• They are crossed by oblique crowded accremental striae, producing sublenticular pitting.2024 June 30, Wikipedia contributors, “Callistele calliston”, in English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation. From the entry accremental
• The one-line chapter pitting gays with the abject mother of macho dismissal and scorn?2009, J. Neil C. Garcia, Philippine Gay Culture. From the entry gayless
• Check ball bearings for pitting, cracks, disorderly conduct; cups and cones for uneven wear; spindle for straightness.1972, Richard Ballantine, Richard's Bicycle Book, New York: Ballantine Books, page 181. From the entry spindle
• British soldiers in Egypt used to have jerrymander fights, pitting one against another.1935, Sir John Arthur Thomson, Biology for Everyman, page 367. From the entry jerrymander
• "It's the worst kind of wedge politics—pitting one group against another: ‘We love you more than they love you,’" she said.2009 June 17, “Flyers alleging Ignatieff is anti-Ukrainian cause stir in Manitoba”, in CBC News, Canada, retrieved 20 Sep 2010. From the entry wedge politics
• Several members cast it as an either-or issue, pitting the form of the headhouse against the function of the passageway.2007 January 8, William Neuman, “Planners Clash Over Transit Hub, and Riders Win”, in New York Times. From the entry headhouse
• A brief rainshower falling on the smooth surface of fine-grained sediment spatters it with tiny crater-like pittings known as rain prints.1993, P. M. Duff, Holmes' Principles of Physical Geology. From the entry rainshower
• After the Airblade’s launch, a battle began to boil, pitting the dryer industry against the world’s most powerful hand-drying lobby: Big Towel.2019 April 25, Samanth Subramanian, “Hand dryers v paper towels: the surprisingly dirty fight for the right to dry your hands”, in The…. From the entry big
• Things peaked a year later with a Sunday afternoon biffo pitting a good-sized detachment of rockers against a combined force of surfies and clubbies.2010, Matt Warshaw, The History of Surfing, page 207. From the entry biffo
• And so the stage was set for the current dispute, again pitting observationalists against theorists on the subject of global warming’s influence on the storms.2007 July 1, Lisa Margonelli, “Wild Is the Wind”, in New York Times. From the entry observationalist
• "Dracula the Un-Dead” forsakes the epistolary format of its forebear in favor of a penny-dreadfulish narrative pitting the first book’s surviving characters against a monomaniacal vampire countess.2009 October 22, Jan Stuart, “Fiction Chronicle”, in The New York Times. From the entry penny-dreadfulish

Meaning of pitting

1. noun The formation of pits on a surface because of corrosion.
2. noun The digging of a pit.

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How do you use pitting in a sentence?

Pitting is used as a noun. For example: “Test pittings were carried out prior to the main excavation.”

What is a short sentence with pitting?

“Test pittings were carried out prior to the main excavation.”

What does pitting mean?

Pitting means the formation of pits on a surface because of corrosion.