ballize

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English

Etymology

From ball +‎ -ize.

Verb

ballize (third-person singular simple present ballizes, present participle ballizing, simple past and past participle ballized)

  1. (transitive) To burnish (metal) by a technique that involves pushing an oversized ball through a hole.
    • 1982, Engineering Materials and Design, volume 26, page 11:
      It is possible to ballize stainless steel
  2. (intransitive) To undergo such a process.
    • 1971, Science and Australian Technology, volumes 9-12, page 16:
      Metals that ballize successfully are: Sintered iron, sintered brass and other sintered materials. Aluminium, brass, bronze, copper, lead and cadmium. Mild and tool steels. []