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Meaning of clinker

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clinker

Pronunciation:/klɪŋkə/

noun

Definitions

  1. A very hard brick used for paving customarily made in the Netherlands.

  2. A mass of bricks fused together by intense heat.

  3. Slag or ash produced by intense heat in a furnace, kiln or boiler that forms a hard residue upon cooling.

  4. An intermediate product in the manufacture of Portland cement, obtained by sintering limestone and alumino-silicate materials such as clay into nodules in a cement kiln.

verb

Definitions

  1. To convert or be converted into clinker.