Usually means: Hardens without external heat application.
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  1. self-hardening: Merriam-Webster
  2. self-hardening: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. self-hardening: Wordnik
  4. self-hardening: Wiktionary
  5. self-hardening: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  6. self-hardening: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  7. self-hardening: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. self-hardening: Dictionary.com
  9. self-hardening: FreeDictionary.org
  10. self-hardening: TheFreeDictionary.com

Definitions from Wiktionary (self-hardening)

adjective:  (metallurgy) Designating, or pertaining to, any of various steels that harden when heated to above a red heat and cooled in air, usually in a blast of cold air with moderate rapidity, without quenching. Such steels are alloys of iron and carbon with manganese, tungsten and manganese, chromium, molybdenum and manganese, etc. They are chiefly used as high speed steels.

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