Usually means: Rapid cooling to alter microstructure.
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  1. quenching: Merriam-Webster
  2. quenching: Collins English Dictionary
  3. quenching: Vocabulary.com
  4. Quenching, quenching: Wordnik
  5. quenching: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. quenching: Wiktionary
  7. Quenching, quenching: Dictionary.com
  8. quenching: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Quenching (fluorescence), Quenching (scrubber), Quenching: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Quenching: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. quenching: Rhymezone
  12. Quenching: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. quenching: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. quenching: FreeDictionary.org
  15. quenching: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. quenching: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  2. quenching: Legal dictionary

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  1. quenching: Encyclopedia

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  3. quenching: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (quenching)

noun:  (physics) The extinction of any of several physical properties.
noun:  (metallurgy) The rapid cooling of a hot metal object, by placing it in a liquid, in order to harden it.
noun:  (astronomy) A process in which a galaxy loses cold gas, thus strongly suppressing star formation.
noun:  (botany) The dissipation of energy from light in excess of what can be used for photosynthesis.

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