Associations to the word «Thermoplastic»

Wiktionary

THERMOPLASTIC, adjective. Softening when heated and hardening when cooled
THERMOPLASTIC, noun. A plastic with this property.
THERMOPLASTIC RESIN, noun. Any synthetic material, such as polyethylene, that can be molded when hot but becomes hard on cooling

Dictionary definition

THERMOPLASTIC, noun. A material that softens when heated and hardens again when cooled.
THERMOPLASTIC, adjective. Having the property of softening or fusing when heated and of hardening and becoming rigid again when cooled; "thermoplastic materials can be remelted and cooled time after time without undergoing any appreciable chemical change".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats