nonabradable

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adjective

Not abradable.

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Meanings

adjectivenonabradable (not comparable)
  1. not comparableNot abradable.

    The acceleration is not shown because the nonabradable shroud peak stress occurred during deceleration.

    1986, Harold E. Helms, Ceramic Applications in Turbine Engines, page 154
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    They are generally nonabradable, so that rubs result in blade tip wear; and this further aggravates the blade tip clearance problem.

    1980, Robert C. Bill, Preliminary Study of Methods for Providing Thermal Shock Resistance to Plasma-Sprayed Ceramic Gas-Path Seals, page 1

    In their view, theoretically at least there is a case for using a flexible but nonabradable surface to interface with bone at the acetabulum [71, 181].

    2012, E. Morscher, Endoprosthetics, page 159

Origin

From non- + abradable.

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