How to Use extrusion in a Sentence

extrusion

noun
Definition of extrusionnext
  • Aluminum sheet, plate and foil as well as rolling, drawing and extrusions7.
    — Rachel Layne, CBS News, 30 Dec. 2019
  • At the bottom of where the laptop sits is a slight metal extrusion, to help keep the laptop in place.
    — Alec Scherma, Good Housekeeping, 27 Mar. 2023
  • It’s chopped to smaller sizes and sent through a series of extrusion processes that will melt and scrub it of grime.
    — Nick Davidson, Outside Online, 25 May 2020
  • Sohl made a chassis for his new machine out of extrusion rails and stiffening plates.
    — Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Domes like this are created by the slow extrusion of sticky andesite lava.
    — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 28 Apr. 2023
  • The filter is made of thousands of nonwoven fibers, each thinner than a strand of hair and fused together through a process known as melt blown extrusion.
    — Graham Kates, CBS News, 9 Apr. 2020
  • What really sparked the explosion of pasta shapes was the invention of the extrusion press.
    — Jeffrey Miller, The Conversation, 12 May 2021
  • Those results lent support to the idea of loop extrusion, a prior proposal about how DNA is packaged.
    — Quanta Magazine, 22 Feb. 2018
  • The lightweight aluminum extrusions that run along either side of the guards securely hold the mesh in place to prevent any holes from forming, and the product is designed to be used on any type of roof, even flat ones.
    — Kat De Naoum, Better Homes & Gardens, 25 Aug. 2023
  • The woman, an employee at the aluminum extrusion plant, was sitting in a chair when EMS gave her a tourniquet and medicine to stabilize her, Sivley told the outlet.
    — Howard Koplowitz | [email protected], al, 31 May 2023
  • Their product is made through a yeast fermentation process that produces silk proteins, which then go through an extrusion process to become fibers.
    — Emily Matchar, Smithsonian, 26 July 2017
  • Their product is made through a yeast fermentation process that produces silk proteins, which then go through an extrusion process to become fibers.
    — Emily Matchar, Smithsonian, 27 July 2017
  • The aluminum extrusion from the plant were used for NASA rocket launchers, military hardware and other items, the indictment said.
    — Everton Bailey Jr., OregonLive.com, 19 Apr. 2018
  • The Air's chassis and body are virtually all-aluminum, a mix of extrusions and castings bonded by rivets, screws and adhesives (and very few welds) to trim weight.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 7 Mar. 2023
  • The current project, studying a process called extrusion, is the most experimental, Ekblaw said.
    — Pranshu Verma, Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2023
  • The fountains that were the centerpiece of his show were the work of the American sculptor Lynda Benglis, great bronze extrusions that suggested organic eruptions or frozen waves.
    — Guy Trebay, New York Times, 28 June 2023
  • PrimaLoft has its own extrusion process that turns aerogels into a powder form and then loads it into extremely tiny polyester polymer fiber.
    — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 16 Mar. 2018
  • But what the scientists observed next came as more of a surprise and allowed them to build further detail into the loop extrusion hypothesis.
    — Quanta Magazine, 22 Feb. 2018
  • The rising company Beyond Meat has gone further and found a way to use soy flour, pea flour, carrot fiber, and gluten-free flour to emulate the fibrous quality in their fake meat with a wet extrusion process.
    — Catherine Hu, Discover Magazine, 12 May 2015
  • It’s commonly called coffin birth, though researchers use the terms post-mortem fetal extrusion or expulsion.
    — Gemma Tarlach, Discover Magazine, 3 Apr. 2017
  • Toyota's system uses an extremely beefy aluminum extrusion cage that covers the entire ceiling of the test house.
    — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 1 Oct. 2020
  • Extruflex makes flexible vinyl strips and sheets through a process called extrusion, which melts and forms vinyl materials into a specific shape and size.
    — William Thornton | [email protected], al, 24 Sep. 2019
  • Vicente operates plastic extrusion machines, which wrap wires and coat them in plastic.
    — Eric D. Lawrence, Detroit Free Press, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Traditional 3D printers use the additive method of laying down the substrate, but the Print Shop uses extrusion techniques, speeding up a process that otherwise could take hours.
    — Rachel Rothman, Good Housekeeping, 16 Mar. 2017
  • There are two sets of extrusion systems for different filaments.
    — Chris Hachey, BGR, 6 Oct. 2021
  • Like most 3-D printers, the Fab@Home system uses a robotic arm with an extrusion head to deposit soft or liquid materials that later harden.
    — Jeffrey Lipton, IEEE Spectrum, 31 May 2013
  • In December 2020 a lava dome started to grow inside the crater, a rocky plug resulting from the slow extrusion of very viscous lava from a volcanic conduit and evidence of magma rising beneath the mountain.
    — David Bressan, Forbes, 9 Apr. 2021
  • Plant meats that are currently on the market, such as the Impossible Burger and the Beyond Burger, use an older technology called high-moisture extrusion.
    — Marta Zaraska, Discover Magazine, 13 Mar. 2019
  • Kadri, a chemical engineer with a doctorate in polymer reactive extrusion, has served as the president of the Diversey Care business since early 2013.
    — Katherine Peralta, charlotteobserver, 1 Aug. 2017
  • Japan buys primary aluminum from overseas and processes it into sheet and extrusions used in vehicles and heat exchangers for domestic sale and export.
    — Bloomberg.com, 5 Mar. 2018

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