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Meanings of hardening in inglês

português
endurecimento
catalão
solidificació
espanhol
endurecimiento

The process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization.

endurecimento
russo
закалка металлов
espanhol
endurecimiento
catalão
enduriment

Metalwork; metallurgical metalworking process used to increase the hardness of a metal.

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закалка металлов
português
hardening
espanhol
hardening

Process of securing a system by reducing its surface of vulnerability, which is larger when a system performs more functions; in principle a single-function system is more secure than a multipurpose one.

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Usage of hardening in inglês
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DERRY'S third night of violence reflected the hardening attitudes across the North.
The Irish Times
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Securing the system's services represents a large part of the hardening task.
Essential system administration, 3rd edition
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My impression is that attitudes are visibly hardening as these events progress.
The Irish Times
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The life that both led even in the summer was thoroughly hardening.
The Last of the Chiefs: A Story of the Great Sioux War
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For now, the bombs appear to be hardening opinion against the militants.
Reuters
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Similar attack could provoke a hardening of stance and would freeze dialogue.
Reuters
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The anger was for the hardening, the compassion was for the hardeners.
Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. Mark
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Israel accused Hamas yesterday of hardening its stance in the Egyptian-brokered talks.
The Irish Times
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They left on April 24, with the polar autumn hardening into winter.
The Guardian
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They pulled vigorously, backstroking; the ungainly raft plowed across the hardening current.
Genellan: planetfall
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In hardening times abounding with atrocities, let that be a lesson too.
The Irish Times
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This of course compels the hardening and contraction of the throat muscles.
The Renaissance of the Vocal Art / A Practical Study of Vitality...
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There has been a hardening of support for Independents and smaller parties.
The Irish Times
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The king hardening himself as the leech assumed a more lofty tone:
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction
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The horrid hardening of her moral sense had been accomplished by herself.
The Legacy of Cain
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Already the agony of Man was hardening into the cynicism of despair.
The Parts Men Play
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Hardening through the time
Hardening across language varieties
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