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Meaning of martensitic | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C1
/ˌmɑɹtɪnˈsɪtɪk/

Definitions

  1. Of, containing, or relating to martensite, a certain crystalline structure that can occur in steel under some conditions and can also occasionally occur naturally in meteoric matter or mineral veins.
  2. Of or relating to a diffusionless transition of one crystal structure to another generated by coordinated atomic, ionic or molecular displacements over small distances (so named because first studied in martensite).

Examples

“martensitic steel”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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