sintered; sintering; sinters
: to cause to become a coherent mass by heating without melting
: to undergo sintering
sinter
noun
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The loose soil can be sintered or glued together to make crude structures.
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IEEE Spectrum, 27 May 2014
The oxygen immediately bonds to the metal ions, forming semiconductor metal oxides that fuse together with one another in a sintering process to form wires.
—New Atlas, 3 Dec. 2024
The material was then placed in a multi-mode microwave sintering furnace, where it was held at an internal temperature of 1,080 °C (1,976 ºF) for 10 minutes.
—Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 11 July 2024
The material is made of a high-metal-load, low-melting-point paste, which is sintered into a thermoplastic scaffold.
—IEEE Spectrum, 12 Aug. 2021
The print is made with a powdered substance, which afterward goes through a process called sintering.
—Mark Gurman, Fortune, 31 Aug. 2023
The finished magnets can be small slivers, no thicker than a dollar bill for an iPhone speaker, or formed into large wedges and sintered together to create the magnets used in wind turbines.
—Andrew Zaleski, Popular Mechanics, 22 Aug. 2023
The final step involved sintering the onggi inside a kiln for a day before it was cooled down.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 17 Apr. 2023
The parts start life as aluminum alloy powder, which is built up in layers, and lasers are used to sinter it together.
—Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 6 Oct. 2022
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IEEE Spectrum, 27 May 2014
The oxygen immediately bonds to the metal ions, forming semiconductor metal oxides that fuse together with one another in a sintering process to form wires.
—New Atlas, 3 Dec. 2024
The material was then placed in a multi-mode microwave sintering furnace, where it was held at an internal temperature of 1,080 °C (1,976 ºF) for 10 minutes.
—Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 11 July 2024
The material is made of a high-metal-load, low-melting-point paste, which is sintered into a thermoplastic scaffold.
—IEEE Spectrum, 12 Aug. 2021
The print is made with a powdered substance, which afterward goes through a process called sintering.
—Mark Gurman, Fortune, 31 Aug. 2023
The finished magnets can be small slivers, no thicker than a dollar bill for an iPhone speaker, or formed into large wedges and sintered together to create the magnets used in wind turbines.
—Andrew Zaleski, Popular Mechanics, 22 Aug. 2023
The final step involved sintering the onggi inside a kiln for a day before it was cooled down.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 17 Apr. 2023
The parts start life as aluminum alloy powder, which is built up in layers, and lasers are used to sinter it together.
—Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 6 Oct. 2022
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sinter
transitive verb
sin·ter
ˈsint-ər 
: to cause to become a coherent mass by heating without melting
the binding of sintered hydroxyapatite with bone
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