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Definition of Coarsens
1. coarsen [v] - See also: coarsen
Lexicographical Neighbors of Coarsens
Literary usage of Coarsens
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Steel and Its Heat Treatment by Denison Kingsley Bullens (1916)
"As the temperature increases beyond this range the grain-size coarsens, causing
a diminution in the strength of the steel. The effect upon the physical ..."
2. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1914)
"15 AND 16.—BEHAVIOR OF VERY LOW-CARBON METAL. The commercial coarsens on ...
the electrolytic coarsens at Ar3. to show whether this coarsening will occur ..."
3. The Colored Girl Beautiful by Emma Azalia Hackley (1916)
"There is nothing that coarsens the skin of some women so quickly as the ...
Chewing gum coarsens the muscles of the jaw and gives a downward trend that few ..."
4. The Works of Tennyson by Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Hallam Tennyson Tennyson (1908)
"... however, he stamps with his own mark and that of his country. He coarsens what
he takes, as a comparison of Sir Martin Mar-all (1667) with its original, ..."
5. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Sir Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1908)
"... however, he stamps with his own mark and that of his country. He coarsens what
he takes, as a comparison of Sir Martin Mar-all (1667) with its original, ..."
6. The Future in America: A Search After Realities by Herbert George Wells (1906)
"It seems to me that all too often she makes an infuriated toiler of him, tempts
him with dollars and speeds him up with competition, hardens him, coarsens ..."
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