sinter

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The little mound, from the top of which the jet appears to rise, is composed of a substance named siliceous sinter, and is a deposit from the water of the fountain.

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  1. noun Geology A chemical sediment or crust, as of porous silica, deposited by a mineral spring.
  2. noun A mass formed by sintering.
  3. transitive verb To cause (metallic powder, for example) to form a coherent mass by heating without melting.

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  • Crude steel production fell 53. 7\% to 297,000 tonnes, pig iron - 50. 5\% to 282,000 tonnes and sinter - 39. 2\% to 553,000 tonnes. —  News on www.kyivpost.com
  • The device is based on two image processing technologies developed by Apical Limited (Headquarters: London, United Kingdom, CEO: Dr. Michael Tusch): iridix, which implements pixel-by-pixel dynamic range compression, and sinter, which is an advanced noise reduction core.
  • Because the TE3610PF uses 'sinter' noise reduction technology in addition to iridix, it reduces sensor noise prior to image compression and improves the efficiency of JPEG and
  • The ability to use mechanical masking, this provides an extremely cost efficient method to achieve simple and accurate 'stop off' on mass produced parts. urface treatment of sinter products, not easily reproduced in a gas atmosphere as the components tend to nitride inside out and may even break up. —  ReadABlog.com New Blogs and RSS Feeds
  • The state-of-the-art plant will be an integrated facility for steel making complete with coke oven and sinter plant. —  India eNews
 

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  1. German, from Middle High German, dross, metal slag, from Old High German.

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  1. from German sinter, Old High German sintar, Middle High German sinter; sinder =Icelandic sindr =Swedish Danish sinder, dross: see cinder.
 

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/ˈsɪntər/
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