sinter

Plural: sinters

Verb

Verb Forms: sintered, sintering, sinters

• To fuse particles into a solid mass with heat and pressure.
• cause (ores or powdery metals) to become a coherent mass by heating without melting
• To heat a compacted powder mass to form a hardened mass.

Noun

• An alluvial sediment deposited by a mineral spring.
• A mass formed by sintering.
• A mixture of iron ore and fluxes added to a blast furnace.

Examples

• He tried to sinter his disparate tiles into a coherent, high-scoring word.

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