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crazing

Word definitions for crazing in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Crazing is the phenomenon that produces a network of fine cracks on the surface of a material, for example in a glaze layer. Crazing frequently precedes fracture in some glassy thermoplastic polymers . Crazing occurs in regions of high hydrostatic tension, ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A covering of fine cracks on a hard smooth surface such as a glazed object or car exterior. vb. (present participle of craze English)

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Crazing \Craz"ing\, p. pr. & vb. n. of Craze , v. Hence: n. Fine cracks resulting from shrinkage on the surface of glazed pottery, concrete, or other material. The admired crackle in some Oriental potteries and porcelains is crazing produced in a foreseen ...

Usage examples of crazing.

The lynchings evoked editorial cautions against crazing Negroes with cocaine to get more work out of them.

From a place high up in the middle of the air, where now the children could see a strange orange spiderweb of light spreading like a starburst of filament-fine lines, crazing in the trembling air as a projectile crazes glass.

Irregular fissures streaked the surface like the Oriflamme's hull crazing magnified.

Irregular fissures streaked the surface like theOriflamme 's hull crazing magnified.

This is what the old paladins taught him: The crazing in the air was a tearing of the fabric of time.

The morning light at the window whitened her skin and showed its tiny veins crazing its tissue, and its dusting of pale hairs, its moles scattered like flakes, and the soft contours of breasts lying like full pouches of milk against her fingers and thumbs.

The flashing steel spinning through the air bore vivid crazings of purple that cried "Poison!

Not garish reds and blues and yellows, but the correct dulled tones, with authentic little cracks and crazings in the white, which was nearer a grey.