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Inter vs Sinter - What's the difference?

inter | sinter |

As verbs the difference between inter and sinter

is that inter is to bury in a grave while sinter is to compact and heat a powder to form a solid mass.

As a noun sinter is

an alluvial sediment deposited by a mineral spring.

inter

English

Verb

  • To bury in a grave.

    • Usage notes

    * The spellings (intering) (for (interring)) and (intered) (for (interred)) exist as well, but are much less common.

    Synonyms

    * bury, inearth, entomb, inhume

    Antonyms

    * dig up, disentomb, disinter, exhume, unearth

    Derived terms

    * reinter

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    sinter

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (geology) An alluvial sediment deposited by a mineral spring.
  • * 1883 June, John Magens Mello, , Volume 23,
    • 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,
  • * 1913 , David Paul Gooding, , Chapter V,
    • It has steaming lakes, pools, and streams, healing baths and springs, acidulous basins of emerald, opal, and orange, and tinted terraces of sinter .
  • A mass formed by sintering.
  • * 2008 , John Banhart, Advanced Tomographic Methods in Materials Research and Engineering , page 55,
    • 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.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To compact and heat a powder to form a solid mass.
  • * 1980 , '', in ''Proceedings of the 1980 NASA/ASEE Summer Study ,
    • Most, if not all, metals may be sintered .
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