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Meaning of "devitrify" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF DEVITRIFY

devitrify  [diːˈvɪtrɪˌfaɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DEVITRIFY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Devitrify is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb devitrify in English.

WHAT DOES DEVITRIFY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of devitrify in the English dictionary

The definition of devitrify in the dictionary is to change from a vitreous state to a crystalline state. Other definition of devitrify is to lose or cause to lose the properties of a glass and become brittle and opaque.


CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO DEVITRIFY

PRESENT

Present
I devitrify
you devitrify
he/she/it devitrifies
we devitrify
you devitrify
they devitrify
Present continuous
I am devitrifying
you are devitrifying
he/she/it is devitrifying
we are devitrifying
you are devitrifying
they are devitrifying
Present perfect
I have devitrified
you have devitrified
he/she/it has devitrified
we have devitrified
you have devitrified
they have devitrified
Present perfect continuous
I have been devitrifying
you have been devitrifying
he/she/it has been devitrifying
we have been devitrifying
you have been devitrifying
they have been devitrifying
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I devitrified
you devitrified
he/she/it devitrified
we devitrified
you devitrified
they devitrified
Past continuous
I was devitrifying
you were devitrifying
he/she/it was devitrifying
we were devitrifying
you were devitrifying
they were devitrifying
Past perfect
I had devitrified
you had devitrified
he/she/it had devitrified
we had devitrified
you had devitrified
they had devitrified
Past perfect continuous
I had been devitrifying
you had been devitrifying
he/she/it had been devitrifying
we had been devitrifying
you had been devitrifying
they had been devitrifying
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will devitrify
you will devitrify
he/she/it will devitrify
we will devitrify
you will devitrify
they will devitrify
Future continuous
I will be devitrifying
you will be devitrifying
he/she/it will be devitrifying
we will be devitrifying
you will be devitrifying
they will be devitrifying
Future perfect
I will have devitrified
you will have devitrified
he/she/it will have devitrified
we will have devitrified
you will have devitrified
they will have devitrified
Future perfect continuous
I will have been devitrifying
you will have been devitrifying
he/she/it will have been devitrifying
we will have been devitrifying
you will have been devitrifying
they will have been devitrifying
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would devitrify
you would devitrify
he/she/it would devitrify
we would devitrify
you would devitrify
they would devitrify
Conditional continuous
I would be devitrifying
you would be devitrifying
he/she/it would be devitrifying
we would be devitrifying
you would be devitrifying
they would be devitrifying
Conditional perfect
I would have devitrify
you would have devitrify
he/she/it would have devitrify
we would have devitrify
you would have devitrify
they would have devitrify
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been devitrifying
you would have been devitrifying
he/she/it would have been devitrifying
we would have been devitrifying
you would have been devitrifying
they would have been devitrifying
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you devitrify
we let´s devitrify
you devitrify
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to devitrify
Past participle
devitrified
Present Participle
devitrifying
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DEVITRIFY


chondrify
ˈkɒndrɪˌfaɪ
clarify
ˈklærɪˌfaɪ
denitrify
diːˈnaɪtrɪˌfaɪ
electrify
ɪˈlɛktrɪˌfaɪ
glorify
ˈɡlɔːrɪˌfaɪ
horrify
ˈhɒrɪˌfaɪ
metrify
ˈmɛtrɪˌfaɪ
nigrify
ˈnɪɡrɪˌfaɪ
nitrify
ˈnaɪtrɪˌfaɪ
petrify
ˈpɛtrɪˌfaɪ
purify
ˈpjʊərɪˌfaɪ
putrefy
ˈpjuːtrɪˌfaɪ
rarefy
ˈrɛərɪˌfaɪ
reverify
ˌriːˈvɛrɪˌfaɪ
scarify
ˈskɛərɪˌfaɪ
scorify
ˈskɔːrɪˌfaɪ
terrify
ˈtɛrɪˌfaɪ
transmogrify
trænzˈmɒɡrɪˌfaɪ
verify
ˈvɛrɪˌfaɪ
vitrify
ˈvɪtrɪˌfaɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DEVITRIFY

deviltry
devilwood
Devine
devious
deviously
deviousness
devisable
devisal
devise
devisee
deviser
devisor
devitalisation
devitalise
devitalization
devitalize
devitrification
devitrified
devitrifies

WORDS THAT END LIKE DEVITRIFY

aerify
aurify
caprify
copurify
corporify
disglorify
esterify
etherify
gentrify
historify
micrify
reglorify
repurify
saccharify
thurify

Synonyms and antonyms of devitrify in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «devitrify» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DEVITRIFY

Find out the translation of devitrify to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of devitrify from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «devitrify» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

失透
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

desvitrificar
570 millions of speakers

English

devitrify
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

devitrify
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

devitrify
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

devitrify
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

desvitrif içar
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

devitrify
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

dévitrifier
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Devitrify
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

entglast
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

失透する
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

devitrify
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Devitrify
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

devitrify
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

devitrify
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

विचलित करणे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

cüruftan camı çıkarmak
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

deve- trificare
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

devitrify
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

devitrify
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

devitrify
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αποϋαλοποιηθούν
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

devitrify
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

devitrify
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

devitrify
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of devitrify

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DEVITRIFY»

The term «devitrify» is used very little and occupies the 181.201 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DEVITRIFY» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about devitrify

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DEVITRIFY»

Discover the use of devitrify in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to devitrify and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Municipal Solid Waste Incinerator Residues
... increases waste Reduces durability solubility Li,O Same as Na2O, but greater effect on a unit mass Reduces durability, but less basis; increases tendency to devitrify than Na2O K20 Same as Na2O; decreases tendency to devitrify Reduces ...
A.J. Chandler, T.T. Eighmy, O. Hjelmar, 1997
2
Geoenvironmental Engineering: Principles and Applications
... Increases viscosity greatly; reduces waste solubility Reduces viscosity; increases waste solubility Na2O Reduces viscosity and resistivity; increases waste solubility Li2O Same as Na2O, but greater effect; increases tendency to devitrify K2O ...
Lakshmi Reddi, Hilary I. Inyang, 2000
3
Looking Through Stone: Poems about the Earth
Devitrify. Lava that cools quickly is fine-grained, but lava that cools very quickly letting no crystals form hardens into a natural glass, opening a delicate window into Earth but as eons creep by, fibre by fibre from the centre radiate more and ...
Susan Ioannou, 2010
4
Pyrometamorphism
A melt cooled to the vicinity of the Tg region will rapidly devitrify to a crystalline aggregate. If cooling is very rapid (as in quenching) only glass forms. At progressively slower cooling rates more and more crystal nuclei are able to form as the ...
Rodney Grapes, 2010
5
Waste Forms Technology and Performance:: Final Report
... 10 weight percent sulfate; melts are corrosive to materials of construction; glass product has a tendency to devitrify; durability can be comparable to borosilicate glass if alumina content is sufficient; composition ~24—27 weight percent NaZO,  ...
Committee on Waste Forms Technology and Performance, Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board, Division on Earth and Life Studies, 2011
6
Prism and Lens Making, Second Edition: A Textbook for ...
Hence the energy in the supercooled state is not very different from that in the crystalline state, and the tendency to devitrify is small. If, however, other groups besides the SiO4 tetrahedra are incorporated in the glass structure, the tendency to ...
Twyman F, 1988
7
Medium Range Order in High Aluminum Content Amorphous Alloys ...
1.03 High Al-Content Amorphous Alloy Nucleation Sites Given that the nucleation sites for the high number of a-Al nanocrystals are some type of structural precursor to crystallization that cause the material to devitrify by growth only, there are ...
William Gregory Stratton, 2007
8
Geological Disposal of Radioactive Wastes and Natural Analogues
Glass is a metastable substance and will, over a period of time, devitrify (nucleate and crystallise) to a more thermodynamically stable assemblage of mineral phases. In addition, glass can dissolve in the presence of water and react to form  ...
W. Miller, R. Alexander, N. Chapman, 2000
9
Ceramic Technology for Potters and Sculptors
The potassa-fluxed test (35B) will also devitrify but may take several weeks. The same will eventually occur in the soda + potassa fluxed tests (35C and 35D). Tests 36A-C The tests with calcia should remain in the glassy state and should not ...
Yvonne Hutchinson Cuff, 1996
10
Glasses and Glass Ceramics for Medical Applications
The glass tends to devitrify when the SiO2 content is less than 30 wt% and it is difficult to obtain a homogeneous glass when the SiO2 content exceeds 50 wt%. Al2O3 is a main component affecting the stability of developed mica crystals and  ...
Emad El-Meliegy, Richard van Noort, 2011

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