Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To treat or coat (a metal) in order to reduce the chemical reactivity of its surface.
- v. To coat (a semiconductor, for example) with an oxide layer to protect against contamination and increase electrical stability.
Wiktionary
- v. to reduce the chemical reactivity of a surface by applying a coating
Examples
“Failing that - perhaps because it has too little fuel to move - it must "passivate" itself by deactivating all its systems.”
“passivate" itself by deactivating all its systems.”
“May 31, 2006, 3: 33 am bad debt reserve says: bad debt reserve daring attainments blackberry Chinatown passivate impulses”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Occidental College’s censorship of radio station –
“As such the application when running under no stress would work fine, but only when the specific Bounded Task Flow was called, and only when the specific Bounded Task Flow was under stress and needed to passivate to the ps_txn table did we see ADF throw the above errors.”
“Once the bare metal, pre-production Mulsanne bodyshell arrives at the paint shop via the automated overhead gantry, it passes through a series of full-immersion tanks, designed first to de-grease, then in turn to clean, condition, rinse, phosphate and passivate the steel and aluminium structure.”
“• Electropolishing is the process used on stainless steel tubing and fittings to simultaneously smooth, brighten, clean and passivate the interior surfaces of these components.”
“Directly Functionalize (Si-C, no intermediate oxide) of silicon nanowire surface as a possible solution to passivate the surface and avoid oxidation.”
“I could support Mr. Obama more wholeheartedly if he didn’t ask for anyone’s prayers, because I don’t believe that nature has a personality that takes any interest in human affairs, and I think that Americans are misled to believe that an imaginary immortal personality is responsible for the human condition, not humans themselves, to passivate us to the experience of injustice.”
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