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hardness

[hahrd-nis] / ˈhɑrd nɪs /




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The researchers showed that their method preserves the same computational hardness criteria associated with RCS, meaning the problem remains extremely difficult for classical computers.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026

Lorenz is the mission’s architect, responsible for figuring out the atmosphere’s turbulence, the hardness of the rocks for a sampling drill, and how much light will be available to allow Dragonfly’s sensors to navigate.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026

Grain growth occurs when the microscopic crystals inside a material become larger, which can change its hardness and mechanical performance.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026

With those adjustments, the team successfully produced cemented carbide through AM without sacrificing its hardness.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026

But something about the hardness behind her eyes scared me so I let her pretend, and I pretended back.

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler

Mineral lattices have important implications for mineral properties, as exemplified by the relative hardnesses of diamond and graphite.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015

Let us give the name of 'sense-data' to the things that are immediately known in sensation: such things as colours, sounds, smells, hardnesses, roughnesses, and so on.

From The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

She told it in her own way with characteristic blindnesses and hardnesses, but the truth of it was this.

From The History of David Grieve by Mrs. Humphry Ward

No doubt, then, the hardnesses and difficulties of any one's lot are part of the divine ordering for the best growth of the person's life.

From Making the Most of Life by J. R. (James Russell) Miller

Her patient, gentle, tender care had impressed him with reverence; he was magnetized by her sphere of unselfishness, forgiveness and goodness, and some of the hardnesses of his own nature were melted away.

From Fairy Fingers A Novel by Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt Ritchie




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