embrittlement

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

The process of being embrittled; loss of flexibility or elasticity of a material; the development of brittleness.

/ɛmˈbɹɪtl̩mənt/ en-us-embrittlement.ogg en-au-embrittlement.ogg

embrittlement embrittlements

From embrittle + -ment.

brittling

hydrogen embrittlement

This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.

Back to search All on E Russian dictionary Dahl dictionary