hardness

Lorenz is the mission’s architect, responsible for figuring out the atmosphere’s turbulence, the hardness of the rocks for a sampling drill, and how much light will be available to allow Dragonfly’s sensors to navigate.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026

Grain growth occurs when the microscopic crystals inside a material become larger, which can change its hardness and mechanical performance.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 4, 2026

The team first measured jaw hardness using nanoindentation, a technique that presses into a material at a microscopic scale.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 16, 2026

It is a pas de deux of contrasts—roughness and polish, hardness and softness, danger and safety.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 22, 2026

The hardness in his gaze was new, and the eyes were smaller and narrower, and in the corners were the firm prints of crow’s feet.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

Mineral lattices have important implications for mineral properties, as exemplified by the relative hardnesses of diamond and graphite.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015

She told it in her own way with characteristic blindnesses and hardnesses, but the truth of it was this.

From The History of David Grieve by Mrs. Humphry Ward

Her patient, gentle, tender care had impressed him with reverence; he was magnetized by her sphere of unselfishness, forgiveness and goodness, and some of the hardnesses of his own nature were melted away.

From Fairy Fingers A Novel by Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt Ritchie

The rest, though they are not free from certain hardnesses, have a pathos and greatness in their simplicity, sufficient to endear the legitimate Sonnet to every Reader of just taste.

From Original sonnets on various subjects; and odes paraphrased from Horace by Anna Seward

Let us give the name of 'sense-data' to the things that are immediately known in sensation: such things as colours, sounds, smells, hardnesses, roughnesses, and so on.

From The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell