Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of extinguishing; also, the state of being extinguished.
- noun In metallurgy, a method of producing a hard crust on molten metal for convenience in removing it in small plates or disks, called sometimes
rosettes , instead of allowing it to solidify in one mass. Seerosette .
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- noun physics The
extinction of any of severalphysical properties. - noun The rapid
cooling of a hotmetal object, by placing it in aliquid , in order toharden it. - verb Present participle of
quench .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the act of extinguishing; causing to stop burning
Etymologies
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Examples
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a deep thirst for knowledge which I hope to begin quenching next year at the
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Severstal engineers said the new line at its Dearborn, Mich., plant, which supplies Ford Motor Co. and other car makers, relies on a secret continuous-annealing formula that involves cooling steel with water—a process known as quenching—and then immediately reheating it.
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Well ... as everyone who knows the properties of metals will tell you, heating a metal up (in this case potassium), then as quickly as possible cooling it down (this is called quenching), makes the metal form tiny crystals, and tiny is what we want.
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The beast of prey skulking back to his lair, the stag quenching his thirst ere retiring to the depths of the forest, the wedge of wild fowl flying with trumpet notes to some distant lake, the vulture hastening in heavy flight to the carrion that night has provided, the crane flapping to the shallows, and the jackal shuffling along to his shelter in the nullah, have each and all their portent to the initiated eye.
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The transfer of the initially absorbed energy to other nonabsorbing molecules, called "quenching" in photochemistry, enables a relatively small amount of greenhouse gases such as CO2 to continuously absorb the thermoradiative energy, which otherwise would escape into space, and to convert the radiation back to thermal energy that stays on Earth.
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The transfer of the initially absorbed energy to other nonabsorbing molecules, called "quenching" in photochemistry, enables a relatively small amount of greenhouse gases such as CO2 to continuously absorb the thermoradiative energy, which otherwise would escape into space, and to convert the radiation back to thermal energy that stays on Earth.
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The old Virginia Inn at the cross roads claims to be the actual scene of the "quenching" of Sir Walter Raleigh.
Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter
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It's not that different in theory from "quenching" metal after it's been tempered / hardened.
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It's not that different in theory from "quenching" metal after it's been tempered / hardened.
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It's not that different in theory from "quenching" metal after it's been tempered / hardened.
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