Toughened
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toughened — index callous, incorrigible, insusceptible (uncaring), ossified Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
toughened — adj. Toughened is used with these nouns: ↑glass … Collocations dictionary
toughened — adj. hardened, made hard; strengthened; made tough; toughened physically tough·en || tÊŒfn v. strengthen, harden; make more difficult; become stronger, become harder … English contemporary dictionary
toughened — adjective 1. made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment a sword of tempered steel tempered glass • Syn: ↑tempered, ↑treated, ↑hardened • Ant: ↑untempered ( … Useful english dictionary
Toughened glass — Toughened or tempered glass is glass that has been processed by controlled thermal or chemical treatments to increase its strength compared with normal glass. It will usually shatter into small fragments, rather than sharp shards, when… … Wikipedia
Toughened glass — Glass Glass (gl[.a]s), n. [OE. glas, gles, AS. gl[ae]s; akin to D., G., Dan., & Sw. glas, Icel. glas, gler, Dan. glar; cf. AS. gl[ae]r amber, L. glaesum. Cf. {Glare}, n., {Glaze}, v. t.] [1913 Webster] 1. A hard, brittle, translucent, and… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
toughened windshield — A windshield made of toughened glass which, on impact, will not shatter like ordinary glass but fractures into small pieces and crazes over; laminated glass is now the preferred material … Dictionary of automotive terms
toughened glass — noun Etymology: toughened (past participle of toughen) + glass : glass tempered by a control process of sudden cooling … Useful english dictionary
toughened — Synonyms and related words: annealed, backed, calcified, callous, calloused, case hardened, crusted, crusty, crystallized, fossilized, granulated, hardened, hornified, incrusted, indurate, indurated, lapidified, ossified, petrified, reinforced,… … Moby Thesaurus
toughened silver nitrate — [USP] a compound prepared by fusing silver nitrate with hydrochloric acid, sodium chloride, or potassium nitrate, occurring as white crystalline masses molded into pencils or cones, and containing 94.5 per cent of silver nitrate; used as a… … Medical dictionary
