plastify

present singular third person plastifies · participle present plastifying · participle past plastified · past plastified

1. To make or become plastic or malleable.

   Mixer 4 may be any conventional single screw or twin-screw extruder equipped with heating means to plastify the thermoplastic resin mix therein.

   1977, Maurice William Ranney, Reinforced plastics and elastomers: recent developments, page 144

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   At a soft initial deformation response, all cross-sections or loaded layers within the gauge length of the specimen may not plastify due to the variation of the actual load-bearing area along the specimen.

   1996, Metal Powder Industries Federation, APMI International, American Powder Metallurgy Institute, Advances in Powder Metallurgy & Particulate Materials

   Some materials have a distinctly defined yield point, e.g. most steels, whereas other materials start to plastify gradually at very low stresses.

   2006, Karl U. Kainer, Magnesium

   Oh. Well, I can't identify the spell that was cast – other than that it required a large amount of magic – which would fit in with a shrink and plastify.

   2010, Chris Dolley, Magical Crimes: Twenty-Four Inches From Tulsa