Definition of "sintering" []

• Present participle of sinter. (verb)
• A process in which the particles of a powder are welded together by pressure and heating to a temperature below its melting point (noun)

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• "And then we have quite a lot of specialty applications, for example, we have an application called sintering, which is high-speed deposition and that's performed well through the first half of the year and actually our printing business it's not a massive business, has also a performed strongly."
• "Researchers at the Univ. of Leicester, led by Professor Jingzhe Pan of the Department of Engineering, focused on a critical step in the manufacture of ceramics known as 'sintering'."
• ""Ceramics are produced from firstly compacting powders into a solid, and then firing the powder compacts in a process called 'sintering'."