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recalescence

recalescence

English

Noun

recalescence ‎(countable and uncountable, plural recalescences)

  1. An increase in temperature that occurs while cooling metal through a range of temperatures in which change in structure occurs.

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Etymology

From Latin recalescere ("to grow warm again"), from re- + calescere ("to grow warm"), inchoative of calēre ("to be warm"). In use since at least 1873 (Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary, published 1985).

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