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Refractoriness

Refractoriness \Re*frac"to*ri*ness\, n. The quality or condition of being refractory.

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refractoriness

n. The quality of being refractory.

WordNet
refractoriness

n. the trait of being unmanageable [syn: unmanageableness, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy]

Usage examples of "refractoriness".

The walls of the pit were steeply, unstably irregular, varying in pitch and shape with the refractoriness of the strata composing them.

Forces of such appalling magnitude as to burn out in a twinkling of an eye projector-shells of a refractoriness to withstand for ten full seconds the maximum output of a first-class battleship's primary batteries!