MEANING
To bond particles of a powder into a solid mass by heating without fully melting the whole material.
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Words that belong together
- sinter metal powder
- sintered ceramic
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The furnace sintered the powder into a dense component.
They sintered the ceramic at a controlled temperature.
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Word forms
- Base
- sinter
- Past tense
- sintered
- Past participle
- sintered
- Present participle
- sintering
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- sinter
- Present continuous
- am/is/are sintering
- Present perfect
- have/has sintered
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been sintering
- Past
- sintered
- Past continuous
- was/were sintering
- Past perfect
- had sintered
- Past perfect continuous
- had been sintering
- Future
- will sinter
- Future continuous
- will be sintering
- Future perfect
- will have sintered
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been sintering
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Usage notes
Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: sinter; sinters; sintered; sintered; sintering Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: sinters.
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