hardness
硬度,硬性,硬质,硬化
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Definitions
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- : the state or quality of being hard: the hardness of ice.
- : a relative degree or extent of this quality: wood of a desirable hardness.
- : that quality in water that is imparted by the presence of dissolved salts, especially calcium sulfate or bicarbonate.
- : unfeelingness or jadedness; callousness.
- : harshness or austerity, as of a difficult existence.
- : South Midland U.S. ill will; bad feelings: There's a lot of hardness between those two boys.
- : Mineralogy. the comparative ability of a substance to scratch or be scratched by another.Compare Mohs scale.
- : Metallurgy. the measured resistance of a metal to indention, abrasion, deformation, or machining.
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Examples
I see the hardness, but I also see that little boy inside that rough person.
Using nanoparticles of a mineral similar to santabarbaraite, the scientists also 3-D printed strong, light materials with a range of hardness and stiffness.
Participants compared the softness or hardness of different blocks.
The result is “art that is a self-willed test of hardness,” which some will consume “not to feel more but to feel less.”
In our outdoor experiments, DyRET used a machine learning model, seeded with knowledge about the best leg configuration for a given combination of terrain hardness and roughness taken from the controlled tests.
Where some hear hardness in hip-hop, Tupac heard transformation, evolution.
His district, just south of Washington DC was among the hardness hit by the trembler.
When she felt his hardness,” however, “the feelings evaporated.
I portray Mecca as it really was, which means in all its hardness and brutality.
It is of an exceedingly hard, densely compact nature; from its hardness difficult to work, but susceptible of a very high polish.
All things are come upon thee, because of the multitude of thy sorceries, and for the great hardness of thy enchanters.