sinter
/ˈsɪntə/US/ˈsɪntəɹ/
sinter noun: an alluvial sediment deposited by a mineral spring.
Noun
sinter (plural sinters)
- An alluvial sediment deposited by a mineral spring.
- That water at a high temperature can hold quartz in solution is well illustrated by the deposits of silicious sinter, thrown down by thermal springs, […]1883 June, John Magens Mello, “Quartz: its Varieties and Formation”, in Popular Science Monthly, volume 23
- It has steaming lakes, pools, and streams, healing baths and springs, acidulous basins of emerald, opal, and orange, and tinted terraces of sinter.1913, David Paul Gooding, chapter V, in Picturesque New Zealand
- A mass formed by sintering.
- Consider a copper sinter material with spherical sinter particles in an early stage of the sintering process, see Fig. 3.5(a).2008, John Banhart, Advanced Tomographic Methods in Materials Research and Engineering, page 55
- A mixture of iron ore and fluxes added to a blast furnace.
- A combination of fully and partly automatic working provides speed, efficiency and manpower economy in unloading coal, home ore, foreign ore and coke and concentrates from incoming wagons and loading outgoing wagons for despatch to the company's Ebbw works with export ore and sinter.1962 December, “Railways and the Spencer Steelworks”, in Modern Railways, page 410
Verb
sinter (third-person singular simple present sinters, present participle sintering, simple past and past participle sintered)
- To heat a compacted powder mass to form a hardened mass.
- Most, if not all, metals may be sintered.1980, “Advanced Automation for Space Missions: Appendix 4C”, in Proceedings of the 1980 NASA/ASEE Summer Study
- A properly made, fully sintered and fully annealed metal clay piece should be able to stand up to any traditional metalsmithing technique.2010, Kate McKinnon, Sculptural Metal Clay Jewelry: Techniques and Explorations, Loveland, Colo.: Interweave Press, →ISBN, page 27
sinter meaning in Tamil and Vietnamese
sinter in Tamil
- மெல்லுருகற்சேர்க்கை அழற்படிவு, ஊற்றுப் படுவு, சாம்பல்
sinter in Vietnamese
- to compact and heat a powder to form a solid mass
- thiêu kết
Examples of sinter in a sentence
- Metals that ballize successfully are: Sintered iron, sintered brass and other sintered materials.
- The latter process, technically known as sintering, depends on the progressive formation of intergranular bonds, mainly by temperature-dependent vapor diffusion.
- The study proved that Sialon particulated smaller than 0.5 micron could be sintered without using any auxiliary additives.
Forms of sinter
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | sinters |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | sinters |
| present participle | sintering |
| past participle | sintered |
| past | sintered |
Origin of sinter
From German Sinter. Doublet of cinder.
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Questions about sinter
- What does sinter mean?
- Sinter means an alluvial sediment deposited by a mineral spring.
- What is sinter in Tamil?
- Sinter in Tamil is மெல்லுருகற்சேர்க்கை அழற்படிவு, ஊற்றுப் படுவு, சாம்பல். See Sinter meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is sinter?
- Sinter can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce sinter?
- Sinter is pronounced /ˈsɪntə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of sinter?
- The plural of sinter is sinters.
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