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Examples of polishing

polishing

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

All pearls are refereed (including my own), and there is often a fair amount of polishing as a result of the reviewing stage.
In our study, a part of this contribution could be attributed to persistently contaminated polishing equipment in a single slaughterhouse.
This capsule was not polished, so high mode specifications for capsules deposited by rolling are met without polishing.
It is possible that the shape specification will be met by further polishing.
For example, scalding, polishing, bung removal, evisceration, pluck removal, splitting, meat inspection or trimming.
His fields of interest include machine monitoring and fault diagnostics, precision manufacturing, and chemicalmechanical polishing of integrated circuit fabrication.
These repetitive rhythmic waves are too fast to be soothing, and have a sense of industry that is perhaps reminiscent of sweeping, scrubbing or polishing.
During typical robot tasks, such as assembly, material handling, polishing, brushing, etc. the robot manipulator is in contact with the environment.
Politeness was, after all, an outcome of polishing, a process that enhanced persons but also collectivities.
This, however, is merely a matter of polishing terminological distinctions rather than a radical revision.
Flat surface properties are important especially in tasks that require force control on the surface, in such contexts as polishing and drawing.
Not all of the samples photographed were perfectly prepared and a number show deep scratching from sample polishing.
Finally, polishing and restructuring the final development to get an honourable-looking piece of mathematics is also a time-consuming task, but a conceptually interesting one.
The burrs were then reduced by hand polishing to 0.0001, 0.0004 and 0.0009 in. height, respectively, and the procedure repeated.
I subsequently did some further tweaking and polishing, but ninety per cent of what appeared on screen was in those first drafts.
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