Usually means: Materials used to grind surfaces.
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  1. abrasives: Merriam-Webster
  2. abrasives: Collins English Dictionary
  3. abrasives: Vocabulary.com
  4. Abrasives, abrasives: Wordnik
  5. abrasives: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. abrasives: Wiktionary
  7. abrasives: Dictionary.com
  8. Abrasives: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Abrasives: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Abrasives: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. abrasives: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. abrasives: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Abrasives: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (abrasive)

adjective:  Producing abrasion; rough enough to wear away the outer surface.
adjective:  Being rough and coarse in manner or disposition; overly aggressive and causing irritation.
noun:  A hard inorganic substance or material consisting in powder or granule form such as sandpaper, pumice, or emery, used for cleaning, smoothing, or polishing.
noun:  (geology) Rock fragments, sand grains, mineral particles, used by water, wind, and ice to abrade a land surface.
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