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Meaning of "toughened glass" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF TOUGHENED GLASS

toughened glass  [ˈtʌfənd ɡlɑːs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TOUGHENED GLASS

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Toughened glass is a noun.
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WHAT DOES TOUGHENED GLASS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

toughened glass

Toughened glass

Toughened or tempered glass is a type of safety glass processed by controlled thermal or chemical treatments to increase its strength compared with normal glass. Tempering puts the outer surfaces into compression and the inner surfaces into tension. Such stresses cause the glass, when broken, to crumble into small granular chunks instead of splintering into jagged shards as plate glass create. The granular chunks are less likely to cause injury. As a result of its safety and strength, toughened glass is used in a variety of demanding applications, including passenger vehicle windows, shower doors, architectural glass doors and tables, refrigerator trays, as a component of bulletproof glass, for diving masks, and various types of plates and cookware. The term tempered glass, in addition to meaning glass that has been heat treated to increase toughness, can refer to glass that has been treated with hydrofluoric acid or other acid. The acid etches away surface scratches and imperfections to increase strength. Toughened or tempered glass is not Plate glass. These types of glass are created under completely different environments.

Definition of toughened glass in the English dictionary

The definition of toughened glass in the dictionary is glass that has been made stronger using chemical or thermal treatments so that it will not break easily.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TOUGHENED GLASS


class
klɑːs
cut-glass
ˈkʌtɡlɑːs
eyeglass
ˈaɪˌɡlɑːs
fiberglass
ˈfaɪbəɡlɑːs
fibreglass
ˈfaɪbəˌɡlɑːs
first-class
ˈfɜːstˌklɑːs
gallowglass
ˈɡæləʊˌɡlɑːs
glass
ɡlɑːs
hourglass
ˈaʊəˌɡlɑːs
isinglass
ˈaɪzɪŋˌɡlɑːs
looking-glass
ˈlʊkɪŋɡlɑːs
masterclass
ˈmɑːstəˌklɑːs
middle-class
ˈmɪdəl klɑːs
Plexiglas
ˈplɛksɪˌɡlɑːs
plexiglass
ˈplɛksɪˌɡlɑːs
sandglass
ˈsændˌɡlɑːs
spyglass
ˈspaɪˌɡlɑːs
sunglass
ˈsʌnˌɡlɑːs
wineglass
ˈwaɪnˌɡlɑːs
working-class
ˌwɜːkɪŋˈklɑːs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TOUGHENED GLASS

touchy-feeliness
touchy-feely
tough
tough cookie
tough guy
tough love
tough titty
tough-minded
tough-mindedly
tough-mindedness
toughen
toughener
toughie
toughish
toughly
toughness
Toul
touladi

WORDS THAT END LIKE TOUGHENED GLASS

beer glass
cut glass
first class
frosted glass
green glass
ground glass
lead glass
looking glass
magnifying glass
milk glass
plate glass
reading glass
ruby glass
safety glass
shot glass
silica glass
stained glass
Tiffany glass
watch-glass
window glass
wine glass

Synonyms and antonyms of toughened glass in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «toughened glass» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TOUGHENED GLASS

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The translations of toughened glass from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «toughened glass» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

钢化玻璃
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

vidrio templado
570 millions of speakers

English

toughened glass
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

गिलास toughened
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

تشديد الزجاج
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

закаленное стекло
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

vidro temperado
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

Toughened কাচ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

verre trempé
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kaca toughened
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Hartglas
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

強化ガラス
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

단단하게 한 유리
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kaca toughened
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

kính cường lực
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

கடுமையான கண்ணாடி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Toughened काचेच्या
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

güçlendirilmiş cam
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

vetro temperato
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

szkło hartowane
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

загартоване скло
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

sticlă călită
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

σκληρυμένο γυαλί
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

gehard glas
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

härdat glas
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

herdet glass
5 millions of speakers

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TOUGHENED GLASS»

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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TOUGHENED GLASS» OVER TIME

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TOUGHENED GLASS»

Discover the use of toughened glass in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to toughened glass and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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High Voltage Engineering and Testing
5.6.4.2 Toughened glass Glass insulators are most usually made from soda-lime- silica glass. The crushed raw material being melted in a furnace called a 'tank' in which the temperature of the raw material is raised to about 1250°C. The ...
Hugh McLaren Ryan, 2001
2
Glass & Interactive Building Envelopes
Results showed a mean strength of toughened glass as 160 N/mm2. A guide to allowable stresses for initial design of glass for short duration loads, based on unfactored loads and using simple elastic formulae, can be taken as the mean ...
Michel Crisinel, 2007
3
Modern Physical Metallurgy and Materials Engineering: ...
la) Thermally toughened glass plate 400 200 200 400 600 800 (b) Chemically toughened glass plate Figure 10.20 Distribution of residual stress in toughened glass plate (stress values in MN m~2 ). The term 'toughening' generally refers to ...
R. E. Smallman, Ray J. Bishop, 1999
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Structural Engineer's Pocket Book, 2nd Edition
The values quoted in this book relate to typical UK strengths. The 'tin side' of toughened glass can be examined using polarizing filters to determine the residual stresses and hence the strength of the glass. Toughened glass cannot be cut or ...
Fiona Cobb, 2009
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Optometry: Science, Techniques and Clinical Management
Heat-toughened glass Crown glass lenses are toughened to a standard or industrial specification, by the application of heat almost to melting point, followed by rapid cooling, which strengthens the structure of the glass by compressing the  ...
Mark Rosenfield, Nicola Logan, Keith H. Edwards, 2009
6
Fundamental Building Materials
Toughened glass will withstand impact loads greatly in excess of sheet glass capability. Laminated glasses can prevent dangerous shattering in accidents. Thermal Properties Thermal expansion is important as a factor in the resistance of ...
K. Ward-Harvey, 2009
7
Insulators for High Voltages
These are values of tensile strength: in compression both toughened glass and porcelains are at least five, and sometimes as much as fifteen, times stronger. Young's modulus is somewhat lower for insulator glass than for the best porcelains, ...
J. S. T. Looms, 1988
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The Way We Build Now: Form, Scale and Technique
Toughened glass is made by rapidly cooling the surface of glass when it is at a high temperature. This process not only produces compression on the surface but tension in the middle of the toughened glass and this accounts for the ...
Andrew Orton, 2013
9
Glass in Building: Principles, Applications, Examples
Chemically toughened glass Glass that has been chemically toughened plays only a subsidiary role in the building industry and is primarily used for very thin panes and complicated threedimensional geometries. Exchanging the ions in the  ...
Bernhard Weller, Stefan Unnewehr, Silke Tasche, 2009
10
Pharmaceutical Journal
MnNursey states that upon his first making the acquaintance of toughened glass articles at the offices of the representatives of M. de la Bastie—watch glasses, plates, dishes, and sheets of glass, both coloured and plain, were thrown across a ...
‎1875

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TOUGHENED GLASS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term toughened glass is used in the context of the following news items.
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Apple Watch Sport's Ion-X glass reportedly endures scratch test in …
Apple Watch Sport's Ion-X glass reportedly endures scratch test in new video ... whose properties lie somewhere between toughened glass and sapphire. «Apple Insider, Apr 15»
2
London Tower Bridge $1.5M walkway shattered by beer bottle
London Tower Bridge's spectacular $1.5 million glass walkway was dramatically ... falling through at any point, as the floor has five layers of toughened glass. «New York Daily News, Nov 14»
3
Mythbusters vs. Gorilla Glass: Adam and Jamie have a smashing time
Corning's Gorilla Glass is the toughened glass used to cover the screens of smartphones, laptops and other gadgets: the Samsung Galaxy S5 and Galaxy Note ... «CNET, Nov 14»
4
Internal Glass Door Regulation
All full length internal glass doors must have toughened glass fitted. ... If you are buying replacement glazing, safety glass must be used in critical locations, ... «Property118, Nov 14»
5
Tower Bridge glass floor walkway: first look at the 'wow project'
It takes nerve to walk across the toughened glass walkway, which is 11m long, 1.8m wide, and made up of six panels, which are 68mm thick and each weigh ... «Evening Standard, Nov 14»
6
Invisible Shield Glass Review: The Ultimate Glass iPhone Screen …
Although mobile manufacturers continue to invest in toughened glass, special coatings, and new materials (we'll see sapphire screens one day, I'm sure), the ... «Forbes, Oct 14»
7
Cheap, Scratch-Resistant Displays
Sapphire—which is about three times harder than toughened glass—could make such damage a thing of the past. Sapphire is already used on a few luxury ... «MIT Technology Review, Sep 14»
8
Glass warfare: Why unscratchable sapphire screens have Corning …
It has lead the field in toughened glass since the 1950s, but it was Steve Jobs' insistence on using glass instead of plastic in the original iPhone that led to the ... «Digital Trends, Mar 14»
9
Corning, Gorilla Glass-makers announce plans for 3D-shaped …
The company is well-known for producing the toughened glass featured on thousands of ... It's been innovating glass-making technologies for a long time. «Today's iPhone, Jan 14»
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Gorilla Glass NBT coming to touchscreen laptops
Today, Corning introduced a new breed of Gorilla Glass. Dubbed Gorilla Glass NBT, the new toughened glass is aimed at touchscreen laptops, rather than the ... «Geek, Jul 13»

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