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Definition of Roughening
1. roughen [v] - See also: roughen
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Literary usage of Roughening
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1. Medical diagnosis: With Special Reference to Practical Medicine : a Guide to by Jacob Mendes Da Costa (1876)
"... the lung-texture, and leaves the bronchial tubes intact: a large accumulation
compresses everything; it Friction sound. Fio. 27. roughening of the ..."
2. Food Industries: An Elementary Text-book on the Production and Manufacture by Hermann Theodore Vulté, Sadie Bird Vanderbilt (1916)
"roughening Burr-Stones. (Courtesy of the Washburn-Crosby Co.) With the invention
of the middling purifier, "high milling" or the gradual reduction process ..."
3. Exotic Conchology: Or, Figures and Descriptions of Rare, Beautiful, Or by William Swainson (1841)
"... roughening the lower portion of its volutions. The outer lip furnished above
with a rounded lobe and striated within ; the pillar rich brown and the ..."
4. A Natural History of the British Lepidoptera: A Text-book for Students and by James William Tutt (1904)
"At the same time that peculiar roughening of the skin takes place, which has been
designated as ... roughening ..."
5. Reinforced Concrete Construction in Theory and Practice: An Elementary by Henry Adams, Ernest Romney Matthews (1911)
"roughening a Concrete Surface.—It is occasionally required that the finished
surface of a floor shall present a roughened appearance. ..."
6. Annual of Scientific Discovery: Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells (1867)
"... position directly the reverse of those produced by corrosion. pose, cither by
a slight artificial corrosion or by roughening the surface of the crystals ..."
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