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martensitic en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /ˌmɑɹtɪnˈsɪtɪk/ (General-American)
  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

Etymology tree English martensite Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English martensitic From martensite + -ic.

Meanings

  1. Of, containing, or relating to martensite, a certain crystalline structure that can occur in steel under some conditions and can also occasionally occur naturally in meteoric matter or mineral veins.
    • martensitic steel
  2. (qualifier:generalized) Of or relating to a diffusionless transition of one crystal structure to another generated by coordinated atomic, ionic or molecular displacements over small distances (so named because first studied in martensite).

Forms

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more martensitic Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most martensitic Degree=Sup lexicographic

Coordinates

bainitic · bainitic · austenitic · ferritic · austenitic · ferritic

Deriveds

martensitically · maraging

Relateds

eutectic · eutectoid

Translations (1)

de martensitisch (Translations)