The action or process of making something hard or harder in consistency or texture, esp. deliberately, by some special process; spec. the process of…
| 单词 | θ209364 |
| 释义 | society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > [noun] > hardening, tempering, or annealing (44) hardening?c1425 The action or process of making something hard or harder in consistency or texture, esp. deliberately, by some special process; spec. the process of… nealing1612 The action of neal, v.; spec. the process of tempering. tempering1661 The action of temper, v., in various senses; an instance of this. annealing1662 The process of subjecting metal, glass, etc., to heating and (typically slow) cooling in order to remove internal stresses and reduce… seasoning1731 The action of season, v. The maturing of wood by drying, etc.; †also, tempering, hardening (of metals). lighting1831 Metallurgy. The process of annealing (annealing, n. 3), especially in the making of files. Obsolete. anneal1868 The action or process of annealing a metal, glass, etc.; an instance of this. Cf. anneal, v. 2c. Subcategories:— heating followed by quenching (8) — hardening by cyanide process (3) — cold working (4) — other types of hardening (5) — types of annealing (5) — process in tempering (2) — sorbitization (2) — spheroidization or polygonization (3) — heating to refine structure (1) — reducing brittleness of hardened steel (1) — cooling (3) |
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