Crossword clues for hardening
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Harden \Hard"en\ (h[aum]rd"'n), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hardened (-'nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Hardening (-'n*[i^]ng).] [OE. hardnen, hardenen.]
To make hard or harder; to make firm or compact; to indurate; as, to harden clay or iron.
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To accustom by labor or suffering to endure with constancy; to strengthen; to stiffen; to inure; also, to confirm in wickedness or shame; to make unimpressionable. ``Harden not your heart.''
--Ps. xcv. 8.I would harden myself in sorrow.
--Job vi. 10.
Hardening \Hard"en*ing\, n.
Making hard or harder.
That which hardens, as a material used for converting the surface of iron into steel.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The process by which something hardens. 2 That which hardens, such as a material used for converting the surface of iron into steel. vb. (present participle of harden English)
WordNet
n. abnormal hardening or thickening of tissue
the process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization; "the hardening of concrete"; "he tested the set of the glue" [syn: solidifying, solidification, set, curing]
the act of making something harder (firmer or tighter or more compact)
Wikipedia
In computing, hardening is usually the process of securing a system by reducing its surface of vulnerability, which is larger when a system performs more functions; in principle a single-function system is more secure than a multipurpose one. Reducing available ways of attack typically includes changing default passwords, the removal of unnecessary software, unnecessary usernames or logins, and the disabling or removal of unnecessary services.
A Blue Team is a group of highly skilled individuals who conduct systematic examinations of Information Systems (IS) or products to determine adequacy of security measures, to identify security deficiencies, to predict effectiveness of proposed security measures, and to confirm adequacy of such measures after implementation.
There are various methods of hardening Unix and GNU systems. This may involve, among other measures, applying a patch to the kernel such as Exec Shield or PaX; closing open network ports; and setting up intrusion-detection systems, firewalls and intrusion-prevention systems. There are also hardening scripts and tools like Lynis, Bastille Linux, JASS for Solaris systems and Apache/PHP Hardener that can, for example, deactivate unneeded features in configuration files or perform various other protective measures.
Hardening means making a material, particularly a metal, physically harder, and includes particular cases such as:
- Hardening (metallurgy), the strengthening of metal alloys by heat treatment
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Case hardening, the process of hardening the surface of a metal by infusing elements into the material's surface forming a thin layer of a harder alloy
- Case hardening of rocks
- Case hardening (woodworking)
- Air-hardening steel
- Cryogenic hardening
- Differential hardening
- Diffusion hardening
- Fire hardening
- Induction hardening
- Laser hardening
- Precipitation hardening
- Quenching
- Shock hardening
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Work hardening, also called strain hardening or cold working
- Strain hardening exponent, a materials constant used in calculations regarding work hardening
It also has the metaphorical meaning of making something more resistant to some threat:
- Hardening (botany) or cold hardening, the process by which a plant survives freezing temperatures
- Hardening (computing), the process of securing a system
- Intellectual property hardening
- Target hardening, making a military or civilian installation resistant to armed attack
- Radiation hardening, making a component or installation resistant to ionizing radiation
- g-hardening, protection of something against high g-force due to acceleration
- Windows Service Hardening, protection of Microsoft Windows services
It may also mean:
- Absorption hardening, in nuclear engineering, an increase in the average energy of neutrons by absorption of those of lower energy
- Hardening of the arteries
- a synonym for sclerotization occurring in arthropods
Hardening is a metallurgical and metalworking process used to increase the hardness of a metal. The hardness of a metal is directly proportional to the uniaxial yield stress at the location of the imposed strain. A harder metal will have a higher resistance to plastic deformation than a less hard metal.
Usage examples of "hardening".
But the hardening brown earth between her toes, that was discomfiting.
She frowned, her dark, fine brows drawing together and the lines in that strong, crepy face hardening.
Snow now caked her mammoth claws, packed between the phalanges of what had once been her fingers, hardening with each painful step.
The Deity of the Old Testament is everywhere represented as the direct author of Evil, commissioning evil and lying spirits to men, hardening the heart of Pharaoh, and visiting the iniquity of the individual sinner on the whole people.
The rain was turning to a semisoft slush at her feet, and the icy drops were hardening as they fellthey had some sting as they struck her bare neck, when she bent over to speak to him through the rolled-down window.
Sometimes, during the day, he went for a short hike, nursing his blister and hardening his feet and at least once a day he dropped in to see Tapper and his father and son, drinking cocoa in the littered bakery and listening to Flash Sugg inveigh against the modern trends of The Trade.
The snow was not yet deep, and it aided them in dragging the travoises over the hardening ground.
But now, her tone gradually hardening, the Queen observed that she was about to enter what the Amazons called Last Quarter: her menses came only infrequently, soon would cease.
Lately he was increasingly frightened by his emotional detachment, an unwanted but apparently irreversible hardening of the heart that would soon leave him with auricles of marble and ventricles of common stone.
Still nothing as Mrs Murphy came in, her hem sagging, her coat smelling of bonfires, her legs still ulcerating but according to the notes this was now due in the main to hardening of the arteries.
They were setting up mantelets and bunkers, hardening the stuff that here passed for soil into respectable defensive armor.
Callista the slow, inexorable deadening of normal physical responses, the numbing of bodily reflexes, the hardening of tensions in mind and body into a rigid armoring.
Unless you know the catalytic agent and the environment, method and period of hardening, you can study the finished metal until your mind congeals without learning its secrets.
There were also several books which instructed the reader that peace of mind of the sort possessed by great saints could be achieved by five minutes of daily contemplation, and two or three complementary books which explained that worry, heart disease, hardening of the arteries, taedium cordis and despair could all be avoided by relaxing the muscles.
Caralie swiped her tears with the back of her hand and stood, the ache of loss hardening into a ball of anger.