Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act, process, or result of cementing.
- noun A metallurgical coating process in which iron or steel is immersed in a powder of another metal, such as zinc, chromium, or aluminum, and heated to a temperature below the melting point of either.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of cementing; the act of uniting by an adhesive substance.
- noun A metallurgical process in which two substances are heated in contact for the purpose of effecting some important chemical change in one of them.
- noun In petrography, the cementing of fragments or grains of a porous or incoherent rock by infiltration and deposition of mineral matter from solution. The commonest cementing-materials are carbonates, silica (usually as quartz), and silicates.
- noun The solid fixation to extraneous objects by the substance of the shell or test, as in the entire class of corals and sporadically in the Brachiopoda, Pelecypoda, Vermes, etc.
- noun In botany, the growing together of the hyphæ of fungi. Same as
concrescence , 4. - noun A process in which two solid substances in contact, upon being heated, pass into and penetrate one another without melting.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act or process of cementing.
- noun (Chem.) A process which consists in surrounding a solid body with the powder of other substances, and heating the whole to a degree not sufficient to cause fusion, the physical properties of the body being changed by chemical combination with powder; thus iron becomes steel by cementation with charcoal, and green glass becomes porcelain by cementation with sand.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of
cementing - noun metallurgy The
impregnation of the surface of ametal with another material; the manufacture ofsteel bycarburizing iron - noun geology The
precipitation ofmineral matter in thepores of asediment - noun medicine The use of a cement join the parts of a broken
bone to aid in the healing process - noun dentistry The use of a cement or
adhesive to fastenorthodontics or to restore chipped or broken teeth
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Examples
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The product obtained by this method is known as cementation steel.
Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges 1895
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Al Jaber, and the U.S. Department of Energy recently announced a collaboration to test the performance of specially coated solar photovoltaic modules designed to avoid the moisture and cementation problems currently faced by PV module producers worldwide.
Bill Richardson: Energy Security Is Fundamental to Global Security Bill Richardson 2011
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Al Jaber, and the U.S. Department of Energy recently announced a collaboration to test the performance of specially coated solar photovoltaic modules designed to avoid the moisture and cementation problems currently faced by PV module producers worldwide.
Bill Richardson: Energy Security Is Fundamental to Global Security Bill Richardson 2011
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The cementation process proceeds considerably slower than for Portland Cement, but in time, cement mortar strengths may be attained.
Potential use of chemical suppressants to reduce remobilized, wind-blown ash 2009
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The process of compaction and cementation is known as lithification.
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The South African company - which has been in the shaft sinking business for more than 47 years - will sink the shafts and sealing water by means of cementation and grouting as opposed to the more traditional Russian ground-freezing method.
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The first, obtained by the decarburation of the metal, gives natural or puddled steel; the second, produced by the carburation of the iron, gives steel of cementation.
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The first, obtained by the decarburation of the metal, gives natural or puddled steel; the second, produced by the carburation of the iron, gives steel of cementation.
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The specimen No. 17 is only of scientific interest, as it gives off an acid vapour when heated; and this substance may have been used by the ancients in the separation of silver from gold by the process termed “cementation.”
The Land of Midian 2003
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Cement and lime: cement has a cementation effect whereas lime has a bonding effect.
Chapter 6 1995
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