quench
Significat (Anglès)
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- To satisfy, especially a literal or figurative thirst.
- To extinguish or put out (as a fire or light).
- To cool rapidly by direct contact with liquid coolant, as a blacksmith quenching hot iron.
- To terminate or greatly diminish (a chemical reaction) by destroying or deforming the remaining reagents.
- To rapidly change the parameters of a physical system.
- To rapidly terminate the operation of a superconducting electromagnet by causing part or all of the magnet's windings to enter the normal, resistive state.
Sinònims
turn off
harding
force back
heat hardening
quench ageing
quench hardening
arc extinction
magnetic blowout
shock cooling
arc suppressing
arc extinguishing
arc blow-out
shock chilling
emergency cooling
extuingish
rinse with cold water
choke down
Freqüència
Pronunciat com a (IPA)
/kwɛnt͡ʃ/
Etimologia (Anglès)
In summary
From Middle English quenchen, from Old English cwenċan, from Proto-Germanic *kwankijaną.
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