Sinter

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /ˈsɪntÉ™/

Origin

From German Sinter.

Full definition of sinter

Noun

1. (geology) An alluvial sediment deposited by a mineral spring.
• 1883 June, John Magens Mello, , in Popular Science Monthly, Volume 23,That water at a high temperature can hold quartz in solution is well illustrated by the deposits of silicious sinter, thrown down by thermal springs, ...
• 1913, David Paul Gooding, , Chapter V,It has steaming lakes, pools, and streams, healing baths and springs, acidulous basins of emerald, opal, and orange, and tinted terraces of sinter.
2. A mass formed by sintering.
• 2008, John Banhart, Advanced Tomographic Methods in Materials Research and Engineering, page 55,Consider a copper sinter material with spherical sinter particles in an early stage of the sintering process, see Fig. 3.5(a).
3. A mixture of iron ore and fluxes added to a blast furnace.

Verb

1. To compact and heat a powder to form a solid mass.
• 1980, , in Proceedings of the 1980 NASA/ASEE Summer Study,Most, if not all, metals may be sintered.

Anagrams

• inerts
• insert
• inters
• Strine
• triens