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hardening
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hardening
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hardening
(encz) | hardening,vytvrzování n: Zdeněk Brož |
hardening
(encz) | hardening,zpevnění n: Zdeněk Brož |
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Hardening
(gcide) | Harden \Hard"en\ (h[aum]rd"'n), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hardened
(-'nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Hardening (-'n*[i^]ng).] [OE.
hardnen, hardenen.]
1. To make hard or harder; to make firm or compact; to
indurate; as, to harden clay or iron.
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2. To accustom by labor or suffering to endure with
constancy; to strengthen; to stiffen; to inure; also, to
confirm in wickedness or shame; to make unimpressionable.
"Harden not your heart." --Ps. xcv. 8.
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I would harden myself in sorrow. --Job vi. 10.
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Hardening
(gcide) | Hardening \Hard"en*ing\, n.
1. Making hard or harder.
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2. That which hardens, as a material used for converting the
surface of iron into steel.
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hardening
(wn) | hardening
n 1: abnormal hardening or thickening of tissue
2: the process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or
crystallization; "the hardening of concrete"; "he tested the
set of the glue" [syn: hardening, solidifying,
solidification, set, curing]
3: the act of making something harder (firmer or tighter or more
compact) |
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hardening of policy
(encz) | hardening of policy, |
hardening of the arteries
(encz) | hardening of the arteries, n: |
water hardening
(encz) | water hardening,ztvrzování vody [eko.] RNDr. Pavel Piskač |
Casehardening
(gcide) | Casehardening \Case"hard`en*ing\, n.
The act or process of converting the surface of iron into
steel. --Ure.
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Note: Casehardening is now commonly effected by cementation
with charcoal or other carbonizing material, the depth
and degree of hardening (carbonization) depending on
the time during which the iron is exposed to the heat.
See Cementation.
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Hammer hardening
(gcide) | Hammer \Ham"mer\ (h[a^]m"m[~e]r), n. [OE. hamer, AS. hamer,
hamor; akin to D. hamer, G. & Dan. hammer, Sw. hammare, Icel.
hamarr, hammer, crag, and perh. to Gr. 'a`kmwn anvil, Skr.
a[,c]man stone.]
1. An instrument for driving nails, beating metals, and the
like, consisting of a head, usually of steel or iron,
fixed crosswise to a handle.
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With busy hammers closing rivets up. --Shak.
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2. Something which in form or action resembles the common
hammer; as:
(a) That part of a clock which strikes upon the bell to
indicate the hour.
(b) The padded mallet of a piano, which strikes the wires,
to produce the tones.
(c) (Anat.) The malleus. See under Ear.
(d) (Gun.) That part of a gunlock which strikes the
percussion cap, or firing pin; the cock; formerly,
however, a piece of steel covering the pan of a
flintlock musket and struck by the flint of the cock
to ignite the priming.
(e) Also, a person or thing that smites or shatters; as,
St. Augustine was the hammer of heresies.
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He met the stern legionaries [of Rome] who had
been the "massive iron hammers" of the whole
earth. --J. H.
Newman.
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3. (Athletics) A spherical weight attached to a flexible
handle and hurled from a mark or ring. The weight of head
and handle is usually not less than 16 pounds.
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Atmospheric hammer, a dead-stroke hammer in which the
spring is formed by confined air.
Drop hammer, Face hammer, etc. See under Drop, Face,
etc.
Hammer fish. See Hammerhead.
Hammer hardening, the process of hardening metal by
hammering it when cold.
Hammer shell (Zool.), any species of Malleus, a genus of
marine bivalve shells, allied to the pearl oysters, having
the wings narrow and elongated, so as to give them a
hammer-shaped outline; -- called also hammer oyster.
To bring to the hammer, to put up at auction.
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Hardening
(gcide) | Harden \Hard"en\ (h[aum]rd"'n), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hardened
(-'nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Hardening (-'n*[i^]ng).] [OE.
hardnen, hardenen.]
1. To make hard or harder; to make firm or compact; to
indurate; as, to harden clay or iron.
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2. To accustom by labor or suffering to endure with
constancy; to strengthen; to stiffen; to inure; also, to
confirm in wickedness or shame; to make unimpressionable.
"Harden not your heart." --Ps. xcv. 8.
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I would harden myself in sorrow. --Job vi. 10.
[1913 Webster]Hardening \Hard"en*ing\, n.
1. Making hard or harder.
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2. That which hardens, as a material used for converting the
surface of iron into steel.
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Self-hardening
(gcide) | Self-hardening \Self`-hard"en*ing\, a. (Metal.)
Designating, or pert. to, any of various steels that harden
when heated to above a red heat and cooled in air, usually in
a blast of cold air with moderate rapidity, without
quenching. Such steels are alloys of iron and carbon with
manganese, tungsten and manganese, chromium, molybdenum and
manganese, etc. They are chiefly used as high-speed steels.
-- Self`-hard"en*ed, a.
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hardening of the arteries
(wn) | hardening of the arteries
n 1: sclerosis of the arterial walls [syn: arteriosclerosis,
arterial sclerosis, hardening of the arteries,
induration of the arteries, coronary-artery disease] |
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