Crossword clues for sinter
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sinter \Sin"ter\, n. [G. Cf. Cinder.] (Min.) Dross, as of iron; the scale which files from iron when hammered; -- applied as a name to various minerals.
Calcareous sinter, a loose banded variety of calcite formed by deposition from lime-bearing waters; calcareous tufa; travertine.
Ceraunian sinter, fulgurite.
Siliceous sinter, a light cellular or fibrous opal; especially, geyserite (see Geyserite). It has often a pearly luster, and is then called pearl sinter.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1780, from German Sinter, cognate with English cinder.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context geology English) An alluvial sediment deposited by a mineral spring. 2 A mass formed by sintering. 3 A mixture of iron ore and fluxes added to a blast furnace. vb. To compact and heat a powder to form a solid mass.
WordNet
v. used of powdery metals or ores; to cause to become a coherent mass by heating without melting
Wikipedia
Sinter may refer to:
- Sintering, a high temperature process for fusing powder together
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Sinter (geology), products of natural fusing processes
- Calcareous sinter, a freshwater calcium carbonate deposit
- Siliceous sinter, a form of opaline silica
- Sinter, a racecar constructed by Fluid Motorsport Development
Usage examples of "sinter".
Where, however, the temperature is high, some part of the deposit, even a little gold, may be laid down just about the spring in the deposits known as sinter, which are often formed at such places.
My tutors tell me evolution is a long, slow process of genetic accretions, Sinter.
The small, intense, and thoroughly discomfiting woman had almost managed to hide behind Sinter, but now she bowed and acknowledged this praise.
They had heard this much in the official newsthe assassination of Farad Sinter, and the unexplained death of Vara Liso, identified as the woman Sinter had placed in charge of many of the searches that had prompted rioting in Dahl, the Agora of Vendors, and elsewhere.
They had heard this much in the official news--the assassination of Farad Sinter, and the unexplained death of Vara Liso, identified as the woman Sinter had placed in charge of many of the searches that had prompted rioting in Dahl, the Agora of Vendors, and elsewhere.
A bullet will bounce off its arachnofiber weave like a wren hitting a patio door, but excess perspiration wafts through it like a breeze through a freshly napalmed forest, Where his body has bony extremities, the suit has sintered armorgel: feels like gritty jello, protects like a stack of telephone books.
A console television was against the wall directly across from the front door, affording whoever sintered a full frontal view of Ronnie Joe Waddell's horrible artistry.
Manfred asks, pointing at the renderer, which is whining to itself and slowly sintering together something that resembles a carriage clockmaker's fever dream of a spring-powered hard disk drive.
Heating without melting, dry at the center, a pile of sand, no man, no success, no fault, she had thrown the wands in the ancient game of Bioka, always resorted to when she was at her wit's end, and the wands said no fault, correction in order, all is not right at the Sinter.
Sinter had received her with politeness, a little cool at first, but as she had expanded upon her evidence, he had begun to burrow down with his questions, digging underneath her confusion to find the gems of evidence she herself had missed.