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Hardness

Hardness Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Hardness? [n] excessive sternness; "severity of character"; "the harshness of his punishment was inhuman"; "the rigors of boot camp" [n] the quality of being difficult to do; "he assigned a series of problems of increasing hardness" [n] devoid of passion or feeling [n] the property of being rigid and resistant to pressure; not easily scratched; measured on Mohs scale Synonyms \| Synonyms for Hardness: callousness \| harshness \| inclemency \| insensibility \| rigor \| rigour \| severity \| stiffness \| unfeelingness Related Terms \| Find terms related to Hardness: abstruseness \| arduousness \| armor \| asperity \| astringency \| austerity \| bothersomeness \| burdensomeness \| callosity \| callousness \| callus \| closeness \| cohesiveness \| coldbloodedness \| coldheartedness \| coldness \| compactness \| complexity \| complication \| congestedness \| congestion \| consistence \| consistency \| crabbedness \| crampedness \| crowdedness \| cruelty \| deepness \| denseness \| density \| difficultness \| difficulty \| durability \| esoterica \| firmness \| flintiness \| formidable defenses \| fundamentalism \| gluiness \| grimness \| hairiness \| hard heart \| hard shell \| hardenedness \| hardheartedness \| hardiness \| hardness of heart \| hardship \| harshness \| heart of stone \| heartlessness \| impenetrability \| impenitence \| impenitentness \| impermeability \| imperviousness \| impliability \| imporosity \| inclemency \| incompressibility \| induration \| inexorability \| inexorableness \| inflexibility \| infrangibility \| insensitiveness \| insensitivity \| insolence \| intricacy \| inuredness \| irrepentance \| jammedness \| knottiness \| laboriousness \| lastingness \| leatherlikeness \| mercilessness \| nonrepentance \| obduracy \| obdurateness \| obstinacy \| onerousness \| oppressiveness \| orthodoxy \| Philistinism \| pitilessness \| precisianism \| profoundness \| profundity \| purism \| puritanism \| reconditeness \| relative density \| relentlessness \| remorselessness \| resistance \| rhinoceros hide \| rigidity \| rigidness \| rigor \| rigorousness \| ropiness \| roughness \| ruggedness \| ruthlessness \| seared conscience \| severity \| short shrift \| solidity \| solidness \| soundness \| specific gravity \| spissitude \| stability \| stamina \| staunchness \| sternness \| stiffness \| stoniness \| stoutness \| strength \| strenuousness \| stringency \| stringiness \| stubbornness \| sturdiness \| temper \| tenacity \| tender mercies \| thick skin \| thickness \| toilsomeness \| toughness \| troublesomeness \| unabjectness \| unbendingness \| unbreakability \| unbreakableness \| uncompassionateness \| uncompromisingness \| uncontriteness \| unfeeling \| unfeelingness \| unforgivingness \| ungentleness \| unmercifulness \| unnaturalness \| unrelentingness \| unremorsefulness \| unresponsiveness \| unsympatheticness \| unyieldingness \| vicissitude \| vigor \| viscidity \| viscosity \| viscousness \| vitality See Also \| body \| consistence \| consistency \| difficultness \| difficulty \| firmness \| incompressibility \| insensitiveness \| insensitivity \| sternness \| strictness Hardness In Webster's Dictionary \Hard"ness\, n. [AS. heardness.] 1. The quality or state of being hard, literally or figuratively. The habit of authority also had given his manners some peremptory hardness. --Sir W. Scott. 2. (Min.) The cohesion of the particles on the surface of a body, determined by its capacity to scratch another, or be itself scratched;-measured among minerals on a scale of which diamond and talc form the extremes. 3. (Chem.) The peculiar quality exhibited by water which has mineral salts dissolved in it. Such water forms an insoluble compound with soap, and is hence unfit for washing purposes. Note: This quality is caused by the presence of calcium carbonate, causing temporary hardness which can be removed by boiling, or by calcium sulphate, causing permanent hardness which can not be so removed, but may be improved by the addition of sodium carbonate.

Hardness Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Hardness?

[n] excessive sternness; "severity of character"; "the harshness of his punishment was inhuman"; "the rigors of boot camp"
[n] the quality of being difficult to do; "he assigned a series of problems of increasing hardness"
[n] devoid of passion or feeling
[n] the property of being rigid and resistant to pressure; not easily scratched; measured on Mohs scale

Hardness In Webster's Dictionary

\Hard"ness\, n. [AS. heardness.]
1. The quality or state of being hard, literally or
   figuratively.

         The habit of authority also had given his manners
         some peremptory hardness.             --Sir W.
                                               Scott.

2. (Min.) The cohesion of the particles on the surface of a
   body, determined by its capacity to scratch another, or be
   itself scratched;-measured among minerals on a scale of
   which diamond and talc form the extremes.

3. (Chem.) The peculiar quality exhibited by water which has
   mineral salts dissolved in it. Such water forms an
   insoluble compound with soap, and is hence unfit for
   washing purposes.

Note: This quality is caused by the presence of calcium
      carbonate, causing temporary hardness which can be
      removed by boiling, or by calcium sulphate, causing
      permanent hardness which can not be so removed, but may
      be improved by the addition of sodium carbonate.

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