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Adverb
/ˈhärdlē/,
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Scarcely (used to qualify a statement by saying that it is true to an insignificant degree),
  1. Scarcely (used to qualify a statement by saying that it is true to an insignificant degree)
    • - it is hardly bigger than a credit card
  2. Only a very short time before
    • - the party had hardly started when the police arrived
  3. Only with great difficulty
    • - she could hardly sit up straight
  4. No or not (suggesting surprise at or disagreement with a statement)
    • - I hardly think so
  5. Harshly
    • - the rule worked hardly
  1. barely: only a very short time before; "they could barely hear the speaker"; "we hardly knew them"; "just missed being hit"; "had scarcely rung the bell when the door flew open"; "would have scarce arrived before she would have found some excuse to leave"- W.B.Yeats
  2. almost not; "he hardly ever goes fishing"; "he was hardly more than sixteen years old"; "they scarcely ever used the emergency generator"
  3. (hardness) the property of being rigid and resistant to pressure; not easily scratched; measured on Mohs scale
  4. (hardness) a quality of water that contains dissolved mineral salts that prevent soap from lathering; "the costs of reducing hardness depend on the relative amounts of calcium and magnesium compounds that are present"
  5. (hardness) unfeelingness: devoid of passion or feeling; hardheartedness
  6. (hardness) the quality of being difficult to do; "he assigned a series of problems of increasing hardness"; "the ruggedness of his exams caused half the class to fail"
  7. Hardness is the measure of how resistant solid matter is to various kinds of permanent shape change when a force is applied. ...
  8. Firmly, vigorously, with strength or exertion; Harshly, severely; With difficulty; Barely, only just, almost not; Not really
  9. (Hardness) Generally defined as resistance to indentation using a modified Janka hardness test, measured by the load required to embed a 11.28 mm (0.444-in.) ball to one-half its diameter. Values presented are the average of radial and tangential penetrations.
  10. Hardness was originally defined as a measure of the ability of water to precipitate soaps made from fatty carboxylic acids.  These “soaps” precipitated in the presence of calcium and/or magnesium ions. ...
  11. (Hardness) That property of the wood species or dried film of finishing material that causes it to withstand denting or being marked when pressure is exerted on its surface by an outside object or force.(1)
  12. (Hardness) A measurement of the malleability or temper of a substance. When purchasing raw materials for wire-work, you will find that wire comes in several different levels of hardness, only a few of which are commonly used by jewellers.
  13. (Hardness) Resistance to a disturbing force. Measured by the relative resistance of a material to an indenter point of any one of a number of standard hardness testing instruments.
  14. (Hardness) The measure of resistance to penetration of the ball surface or truncated flat of the ball by a specific indenting shape.
  15. (Hardness) The toughness of the surface of a metal. Normally stated in terms of Rockwell or Brinell scale of measurement, hardness shows resistance of a fastener to rough marks and abrasions, can indicate yield strength and brittleness, and has a direct relationship to tensile strength in alloy ...
  16. (Hardness) The level of pressure a material will withstand without becoming deformed or scratched.
  17. (Hardness) the resistance of a substance to surface abrasion.
  18. (Hardness) mineral's resistance to scratching on a smooth surface. Mohs scale of relative hardness consists of 10 minerals, each scratching all those below it in scale and being scratched by all those above it.
  19. (Hardness) quality of water mostly caused by excess Calcium and Magnesium
  20. Hardness of tubular products is measured by a destructive test performed on a standard Rockwell Penetrator and recorded on the Rockwell "B" scale. Hardness is inversely proportional to the temperature and duration of the annealing process. ...
  21. (Hardness) The steels ability to resist indentation or penetration. Hardness is measured and reported bases on test results from Rockwell, Brinell or Vickers hardness tests.
  22. Hardness refers to a materials resistance to scratching.  Diamonds are the hardness known gemstone, only another diamond can scratch a diamond.
  23. (Hardness) Resistance to surface indentation usually measured by the depth of penetration (or arbitrary units related to the depth of penetration) of a blunt point under a given load using a particular instrument according to a prescribed procedure.
  24. Hardness is the intrinsic property of a wood that enables it to resist indentation. It is measured in the pounds per square inch of pressure that is required to sink a .444 inch steel ball one half its diameter into the surface of the wood dried to a 12% moisture content. ...
  25. (HARDNESS) A characteristic of natural water due to the presence of dissolved calcium and magnesium; water hardness is responsible for most scale formation in pipes and water heaters and forms insoluble "curd" when it reacts with soaps. ...