Usually means: Increasing material resistance to fracture.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. toughening: Merriam-Webster
  2. toughening: Collins English Dictionary
  3. toughening: Vocabulary.com
  4. Toughening, toughening: Wordnik
  5. toughening: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. toughening: Wiktionary
  7. toughening: Dictionary.com
  8. toughening: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Toughening: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Toughening: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. Toughening: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. toughening: FreeDictionary.org
  13. toughening: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. toughening: Legal dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
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Definitions from Wiktionary (toughening)

▸ noun:  The process of making something tougher.

Similar:
annealed, baked, burned, calloused, enured, hardened, inured, sunbaked, tempered, thickened, more...

Opposite:
weakening, softening, relaxing, loosening

Types:
annealing, quenching, normalizing, tempering, martempering, austempering, more...



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Similar:
annealed, baked, burned, calloused, enured, hardened, inured, sunbaked, tempered, thickened, more...

Opposite:
weakening, softening, relaxing, loosening

Types:
annealing, quenching, normalizing, tempering, martempering, austempering, more...



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