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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SIN'TER, n. In mineralogy, calcarious sinter is a variety of carbonate of lime, composed of a series of successive layers, concentric, plane or undulated, and nearly or quite parallel. It appears under various forms. Silicious sinter is white or grayish, light, brittle, porous,, and of a fibrous texture. Opaline silicious sinter somewhat resembles opal. It is whitish, with brownish, blackish or bluish spots, and its fragments present dendritic appearances. Pearl sinter or fiorite occurs in stalactitic, cylindrical, botryoidal, and globular masses, white or grayish.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: cause (ores or powdery metals) to become a coherent mass by heating without melting

Merriam Webster's

verb Etymology: German Sinter slag, cinder, from Old High German sintar — more at cinder Date: 1871 transitive verb to cause to become a coherent mass by heating without melting intransitive verb to undergo sintering • sinter noun • sinterability noun

Britannica Concise

Mineral deposit with a porous or vesicular texture (having small cavities). Siliceous sinter is a deposit of opaline or amorphous silica that occurs as an incrustation around hot springs and geysers and sometimes forms conical mounds (geyser cones) or terraces. Calcareous sinter, sometimes called tufa, calcareous tufa, or calc-tufa, is a deposit of calcium carbonate.

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & v. --n. 1 a siliceous or calcareous rock formed by deposition from springs. 2 a substance formed by sintering. --v.intr. & tr. coalesce or cause to coalesce from powder into solid by heating. Etymology: G, = E sinder CINDER

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Sinter Sin"ter, n. [G. Cf. Cinder.] (Min.) Dross, as of iron; the scale which files from iron when hammered; -- applied as a name to various minerals. Calcareous sinter, a loose banded variety of calcite formed by deposition from lime-bearing waters; calcareous tufa; travertine. Ceraunian sinter, fulgurite. Siliceous sinter, a light cellular or fibrous opal; especially, geyserite (see Geyserite). It has often a pearly luster, and is then called pearl sinter.