cold flow

English

Noun

cold flow (countable and uncountable, plural cold flows)

  1. (material science, metallurgy) Low, ambient temperature creep; particularly affecting polymers or low-melting-point (typically nonferrous) metals.
  2. Viscous flow at ambient or cold temperature.

Verb

cold flow (third-person singular simple present cold flows, present participle cold flowing, simple past and past participle cold flowed)

  1. (intransitive, often hyphenated) To exhibit cold flow.

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