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biscuit-bake — The initial bake(s) given fusing porcelain at lower than glazing temperature to control shrinkage during the process of building up the dental restoration. SYN: biscuit firing … Medical dictionary
biscuit — [bis′kit] n. pl. biscuits or biscuit [ME bisquit, besquit < OFr bescuit (altered, under infl. of OIt biscotto) < ML biscoctum < (panis) bis coctus, (bread) twice baked < L bis, twice (see BINARY) + coctus, pp. of coquere,COOK] 1.… … English World dictionary
biscuit — biscuitlike, adj. /bis kit/, n. 1. a kind of bread in small, soft cakes, raised with baking powder or soda, or sometimes with yeast. 2. Chiefly Brit. a. a dry and crisp or hard bread in thin, flat cakes, made without yeast or other raising agent; … Universalium
biscuit — A term associated with the firing of porcelain, and applied to the fired article before glazing. May be any stage after the fluxes have flowed enough to provide rigidity to the structure up to the stage where shrinkage is complete. Referred to as … Medical dictionary
biscuit — noun (plural biscuits; also biscuit) Etymology: Middle English bisquite, from Anglo French besquit, from (pain) besquit twice cooked bread Date: 14th century 1. a. any of various hard or crisp dry baked products: as (1) … New Collegiate Dictionary
biscuit — bis•cuit [[t]ˈbɪs kɪt[/t]] n. 1) coo a small, soft, raised bread, usu. leavened with baking powder or soda 2) coo brit. Chiefly Brit. a) a cracker b) a cookie 3) a pale brown color 4) cer Also called bisque II, 1) unglazed earthenware or… … From formal English to slang
biscuit fire — noun : the fire or firing that converts ceramic greenware to biscuit called also bisque fire … Useful english dictionary
Бисквит (фарфор) — Фигурка из фарфора «бисквит» из коллекции Музея и художественной галереи Дерби См. также: бисквит Бисквит (Bisque, biscuit … Википедия
Earthenware — is a common ceramic material, which is used extensively for pottery tableware and decorative objects. Although body formulations vary tremendously between countries, and even between individual makers, a generic composition is 25% ball clay, 28%… … Wikipedia
Tin-glazing — is the process of giving ceramic items a tin based glaze which is white, shiny and opaque, normally applied to red or buff earthenware.The earliest tin glazed pottery appears to have been made in Iraq/Mesopotamia in the 9th century, the oldest… … Wikipedia
