overage
See also: over-age
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈəʊvəɹˈeɪdʒ/
Antonyms
Verb
overage (third-person singular simple present overages, present participle overaging, simple past and past participle overaged)
- To have too long an aging process.
- 1997, George Murray, Handbook of Materials Selection for Engineering Applications, →ISBN, page 92:
- The heat-treatable alloys may overage (soften) with time at temperature due to the coalescence of the precipitate particles which, when present in a smaller dispersed size, enhance roomtemperature strength.
- 2013, Mahmoud M. Farag, Materials and Process Selection for Engineering Design, →ISBN:
- Structures that have been precipitation hardened to peak values may overage, and steels that have been hardened and tempered may overtemper.
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈəʊvəɹɪdʒ/
Noun
overage (countable and uncountable, plural overages)
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