Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Becoming soft when heated and hard when cooled.
- noun A thermoplastic resin, such as polystyrene or polyethylene.
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- adjective
softening whenheated andhardening whencooled - noun A
plastic with thisproperty .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a material that softens when heated and hardens again when cooled
- adjective having the property of softening or fusing when heated and of hardening and becoming rigid again when cooled
Etymologies
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Examples
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The term thermoplastic means simply a plastic that when heated softens and hardens again when cooled.
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Braskem, the leader in the Latin American thermoplastic resins market, was founded in August 2002, when Odebrecht and the Mariani and Copene Petroquimica do Nordeste companies integrated their petrochemical assets.
Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 2010
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In addition, converters can use NatureFlexT NK as a basis for delivering further flexible 'bio-solutions', by associating it with compatible biofilms such as thermoplastic starches and copolyesters, "said Andy Sweetman,
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Over the years sealing applications have evolved from the traditional rubber and rubber-fabric seal constructions to a design which has a face of hard wearing thermoplastic polyester elastomer in contact with the bore, whereas the older design relies on a nitrile rubber dynamic sealing element.
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Of course plastics like cast polycarprolactone, thermoplastic, and self-lubricating plastic, by their facility for organic cellular suffocation, repel us while effecting disorientation.
G. Roger Denson: From Detroit, Egypt: Matthew Barney Resurrects an American God G. Roger Denson 2011
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Of course plastics like cast polycarprolactone, thermoplastic, and self-lubricating plastic, by their facility for organic cellular suffocation, repel us while effecting disorientation.
G. Roger Denson: From Detroit, Egypt: Matthew Barney Resurrects an American God G. Roger Denson 2011
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Who knew a loop of polyethylene thermoplastic could be so life altering?
Hooping.org | Blog 2009
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The gland seal design continues to include a plastic anti-extrusion ring, but is now of a larger section to withstand the increased metal-to-metal gaps which are the result of using bearing strip, the sealing material is now a responsive hydrolysis-resistant thermoplastic polyurethane, energised by a nitrile element.
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Who knew a loop of polyethylene thermoplastic could be so life altering?
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Of course plastics like cast polycarprolactone, thermoplastic, and self-lubricating plastic, by their facility for organic cellular suffocation, repel us while effecting disorientation.
G. Roger Denson: From Detroit, Egypt: Matthew Barney Resurrects an American God G. Roger Denson 2011
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