Meaning of 'frit'

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Meaning of ‘frit’

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frit

(Glass Making) The material of which glass is made, after having been calcined or partly fused in a furnace, but before vitrification. It is a composition of silex and alkali, occasionally with other ingredients. Ure.

(Ceramics) The material for glaze of pottery. Frit brick, a lump of calcined glass materials, brought to a pasty condition in a reverberatory furnace, preliminary to the perfect vitrification in the melting pot. To prepare by heat (the materials for making glass); to fuse partially. Ure. To fritter; -- with away. [R.] Ld. Lytton.

Source: WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University

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