(n.) A round-edged, or hemispherical, end to the head of a hammer or sledge, used to stretch or bend metal by indentation.
(n.) The sharp-edged end of the head of a mason's hammer.
(v. t.) To draw, bend, or straighten, as metal, by blows with the peen of a hammer or sledge.
Example Sentences:
(1) This could be shown in the shot peened plates as well as in the polished plates.
(2) A 1.6-kilobase internal fragment contains an open reading frame of 927 bases coding for an immunoreactive peptide of 34,349 daltons, which corresponds in size with an observed cytoplasmic form of fimbrial peptide (P. M. Fives-Taylor, F. L. Macrina, T. J. Pritchard, and S. J. Peene, Infect.
(3) This effect was especially marked after a shot-peening of alloys and a very high polishing of resin.
(4) Shot peening of surgical implants thus means an improvement in quality.
(5) The hardening achieved by shot peening is not reduced by bending.
(6) Shot peening can increase the fatigue strength of commercially available surgical plates made of 1.4435 alloy by 40% even in a corrosive environment.
(7) Up to now we implanted 37 shot peened osteosynthesis plates for fixation of intertrochanteric osteotomies.
(8) Our investigations show that residual stresses resulting from shot peening are reduced by additional bending of the plates.
(9) Metallurgic specimens showed not so many pittings at the shot peened plates in the region of the screw hole as were seen at the polished plates after the same period of implantation.
(10) The year before the Meyer-Lindenberg study was published, the existence of that link had been established still more firmly by a group of Dutch researchers led by Dr Jaap Peen.
(11) Shot peening is a cold-working process to increase the fatigue life of osteosynthesis plates.
Peon
Definition:
(n.) See Poon.
(n.) A foot soldier; a policeman; also, an office attendant; a messenger.
(n.) A day laborer; a servant; especially, in some of the Spanish American countries, debtor held by his creditor in a form of qualified servitude, to work out a debt.
(n.) See 2d Pawn.
Example Sentences:
(1) If any of the poor little peons that they don’t care about don’t have that paycheck coming, they can’t buy your stuff.” To those who say robots are taking more jobs than Mexicans, she points to the number of factories across the border.
(2) But more than anything, Maddox – who did not want her picture taken – voted for the incoming president because she sees him as on the side of people like her, those she calls the “peons” at the mercy of big business and indifferent politicians.