sintering
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.34 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A process in which the particles of a powder are welded together by pressure and heating to a temperature below its melting point.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "The idea was to build a thick pavement of high-density dry snow, allowing it to "age-harden" like concrete. The latter process, technically known as sintering, depends on the progressive formation of intergranular bonds, mainly by temperature-dependent vapor diffusion."