sintered; sintering; sinters
: to cause to become a coherent mass by heating without melting
: to undergo sintering
sinter
noun
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Ceramic stones Ceramic stones are sintered, which means aluminum oxide has been heated, compressed and bound with ceramic powder to create a hard sharpening stone that doesn’t require any form of lubrication.
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Bestreviews, Mercury News, 18 July 2025
The oxygen immediately bonds to the metal ions, forming semiconductor metal oxides that fuse together with one another in a sintering process to form wires.
—New Atlas, 3 Dec. 2024
The print is made with a powdered substance, which afterward goes through a process called sintering.
—Mark Gurman, Fortune, 31 Aug. 2023
The finished magnets can be small slivers, no thicker than a dollar bill for an iPhone speaker, or formed into large wedges and sintered together to create the magnets used in wind turbines.
—Andrew Zaleski, Popular Mechanics, 22 Aug. 2023
And Sumitomo had the sintering worldwide, North America, Asia, Europe, everywhere.
—Glenn Zorpette, IEEE Spectrum, 21 June 2022
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Bestreviews, Mercury News, 18 July 2025
The oxygen immediately bonds to the metal ions, forming semiconductor metal oxides that fuse together with one another in a sintering process to form wires.
—New Atlas, 3 Dec. 2024
The print is made with a powdered substance, which afterward goes through a process called sintering.
—Mark Gurman, Fortune, 31 Aug. 2023
The finished magnets can be small slivers, no thicker than a dollar bill for an iPhone speaker, or formed into large wedges and sintered together to create the magnets used in wind turbines.
—Andrew Zaleski, Popular Mechanics, 22 Aug. 2023
And Sumitomo had the sintering worldwide, North America, Asia, Europe, everywhere.
—Glenn Zorpette, IEEE Spectrum, 21 June 2022
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“Sinter.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sinter. Accessed 31 Oct. 2025.
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sinter
transitive verb
sin·ter
ˈsint-ər 
: to cause to become a coherent mass by heating without melting
the binding of sintered hydroxyapatite with bone
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