plastify
verbEtymology From plastic + -ify.
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To make or become plastic or malleable.
- Mixer 4 may be any conventional single screw or twin-screw extruder equipped with heating means to plastify the thermoplastic resin mix therein.1977, Maurice William Ranney, Reinforced plastics and elastomers: recent developments, page 144:
- At a soft initial deformation response, all cross-sections or loaded layers within the gauge length of the specimen may not plastify due to the variation of the actual load-bearing area along the specimen.1996, Metal Powder Industries Federation, APMI International, American Powder Metallurgy Institute, Advances in Powder Metallurgy & Particulate Materials:
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- Some materials have a distinctly defined yield point, e.g. most steels, whereas other materials start to plastify gradually at very low stresses.2006, Karl U. Kainer, Magnesium:
- Oh. Well, I can't identify the spell that was cast – other than that it required a large amount of magic – which would fit in with a shrink and plastify.2010, Chris Dolley, Magical Crimes: Twenty-Four Inches From Tulsa:
- Derived terms
- deplastify