Usually means: Hardens permanently when heated once.
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  1. thermosetting: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. thermosetting: Merriam-Webster
  3. thermosetting: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. thermosetting: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. thermosetting: Collins English Dictionary
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  7. thermosetting: Wiktionary
  8. thermosetting: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. thermosetting: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. thermosetting: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. thermosetting: Dictionary.com
  12. Thermosetting: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. thermosetting: Rhymezone
  14. thermosetting: FreeDictionary.org
  15. thermosetting: Mnemonic Dictionary
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  1. thermosetting: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

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  1. thermosetting: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. thermosetting: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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Definitions from Wiktionary (thermosetting)

adjective:  (chemistry) becoming permanently hard or solidifying when heated; used especially of synthetic plastics such as Bakelite.

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