Definition of Coarsening

1. Verb. (present participle of coarsen) ¹

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Definition of Coarsening

1. coarsen [v] - See also: coarsen

Lexicographical Neighbors of Coarsening

coarctotomy
coarse
coarse-grained
coarse-graining
coarse-grainings
coarse breast architecture
coarse dispersion
coarse tremor
coarsely
coarsen
coarsened
coarsener
coarseners
coarseness
coarsenesses
coarsening (current term)
coarsens
coarser
coarsest
coarsish
coarticulate
coarticulated
coarticulates
coarticulating
coarticulation
coarticulations

Literary usage of Coarsening

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Metallography of Steel and Cast Iron by Henry Marion Howe (1916)
"Grain coarsening by Overheating Weakens More than it Softens.— My preliminary experiments, while confirming the general observation that long high heating, ..."

2. Metallurgy; an Introduction to the Study of Physical Metallurgy: An by Walter Rosenhain (1914)
"In such a material the effect of prolonged annealing upon the resulting structure can only be of one kind, viz., the coarsening of the structure by an ..."

3. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1918)
"Howe calls "natal coarsening." It is evident that such coarsening must be natal, ie, born during the transformation from gamma to non-gamma iron. ..."

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