thermoset

1. 1.

   having the property of becoming permanently hard and rigid when heated or cured

   “the phenol resins and plastics were the original synthetic thermosetting materials”

   Synonymsthermosetting

Questions about thermoset

What does thermoset mean?

thermoset means "having the property of becoming permanently hard and rigid when heated or cured".

How many syllables are in thermoset?

thermoset has 3 syllables: ther-mo-set. The stress falls on "ther".

What is another word for thermoset?

Close synonyms include thermosetting. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is thermoset a common word?

thermoset is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.