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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A sudden slowing in the rate of temperature increase in a metal being heated, caused by endothermic structural changes and resulting in a darkening of the metal.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The sudden absorption of heat by iron which is observed when that substance is heated to about 795° C.: opposed to recalescence.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun phenomenon that occurs when a metal is being heated and there is a sudden slowing in the rate of temperature increase; slowing is caused by a change in the internal crystal structure of the metal

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From de– + Latin calēscere, to become warm, inchoative of calēre, to be warm; see kelə- in Indo-European roots.]

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