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sinter

/ˈsɪntə/ UK
/ˈsɪntəɹ/ US

Rhymes with -ɪntə(ɹ)

Where it comes from

From German Sinter. Doublet of cinder.

noun sinters

An alluvial sediment deposited by a mineral spring. That water at a high temperature can hold quartz in solution is well illustrated by the deposits of silicious sinter, thrown down by thermal springs, […]
A mass formed by sintering. Consider a copper sinter material with spherical sinter particles in an early stage of the sintering process, see Fig. 3.5(a).
A mixture of iron ore and fluxes added to a blast furnace. A combination of fully and partly automatic working provides speed, efficiency and manpower economy in unloading coal, home ore, foreign ore and coke and concentrates from incoming wagons and loading outgoing wagons for despatch to the company's Ebbw works with export ore and sinter.

verb sinters · sintering · sintered

To heat a compacted powder mass to form a hardened mass. Most, if not all, metals may be sintered.

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verb to compact and heat a powder to form a solid mass

Español	sinterizar
日本語	焼結 shōketsu
中文	泉华
Português	sinterizar
Deutsch	sintern
Русский	спека́ть spekátʹ
Tiếng Việt	thiêu kết

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@misc{sinter_2026,
  title = {sinter},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/sinter},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}