Word of the Week

(For the week of 23-29 July 2006)

 

plas.ti.fi.ca.tion n: a process of causing permanent deformation of a solid using pressure and/or heat.

ex: "In the science laboratory, the seeming right-angle bend glass tubing was actually indeed a former glass stirring rod that a couple subversive classmates subjected to plastification."

 

- Thanks to L. Gammon

 

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