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Definitions

Adjective

1. 1
   Of, containing, or relating to martensite, a certain crystalline structure that can occur in steel under some conditions and can also occasionally occur naturally in meteoric matter or mineral veins.

   "martensitic steel"

2. 2
   Of or relating to a diffusionless transition of one crystal structure to another generated by coordinated atomic, ionic or molecular displacements over small distances (so named because first studied in martensite).

Etymology

From martensite + -ic.

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