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Frit

Quartz frit dish with a brace-shaped rim, covered with a white slip and painted in underglaze blue. In the center a vine. The edge with eight flower tendrils. On the edge a band with circles with a recessed cloud motif. The back with five flower tendrils. A crack in the saucer. Iznik.
Quartz frit dish with a brace-shaped rim, covered with a white slip and painted in underglaze blue. In the center a vine. The edge with eight flower tendrils. On the edge a band with circles with a recessed cloud motif. The back with five flower tendrils. A crack in the saucer. Iznik.
Illustrations
Scene from the story of Frits's violin, about how Frits saves his own life with his magic violin. Below the image a text in two columns. Numbered bottom center: Nro. 67. Numbered top right: 67.
Scene from the story of Frits's violin, about how Frits saves his own life with his magic violin. Below the image a text in two columns. Numbered bottom center: Nro. 67. Numbered top right: 67.
Sheet with 16 scenes from the story of the mischievous boys Frits and Frans who play pranks and eventually die. A caption below each image. Numbered lower left: No. 91.
Sheet with 16 scenes from the story of the mischievous boys Frits and Frans who play pranks and eventually die. A caption below each image. Numbered lower left: No. 91.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Frit
    (Ceramics) The material for glaze of pottery.
  2. 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.
  3. Frit
    To fritter; -- with away.
  4. Frit
    To prepare by heat (the materials for making glass); to fuse partially.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) frit
    The material of which glass is made as prepared for complete fusion by a previous calcination carried to a point where the silica begins to act on the bases, forming an imperfectly melted or fritted mass.
  2. (n) frit
    The composition from which artificial soft or tender porcelain and other partly vitrifiable mixtures are made. See soft porcelain, under porcelain.
  3. frit
    To decompose and fuse partially, as the ingredients mixed for making glass, before completely fusing at a much higher temperature.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (n) Frit
    frit the mixed materials of which glass is made, after being heated until they fuse partially without melting
  2. (v.t) Frit
    to fuse partially without melting:—pr.p. frit′ting; pa.p. frit′ted
  3. (n) Frit
    frit a small fly destructive to wheat.
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary F. fritte, fr. frit, fried, p. p. of frire, to fry. See Far (v. t.)

Usage in the news

Today's "pickle free" enamels use frits that are designed to react chemically and mechanically to form a tight bond directly with the substrate. ceramicindustry.com

Direct Diode System Designed for OLED FRIT Welding and Soldering. mdtmag.com

Attendees will learn basic techniques for fusing glass jewelry and make earrings, pins and pendants using frits, stringers, dichroic glasses and photo fusing paper to create rich sepia toned decals. hollandsentinel.com

We accept the important points raised by Frits van der Haar and colleagues and acknowledge the available evidence base for salt iodisation to correct iodine deficiency. thelancet.com

He takes over the chairmanship as of January 2008, succeeding Frits Beurskens of the Dutch Smurfit Kappa Group. paperage.com

Direct Diode System Designed for OLED FRIT Welding and Soldering . mdtmag.com

Jeffrey Simon, Director of the Massachusetts Recovery and Reinvestment Office meets with FRIT Executive Don Briggs and Mayor Joseph Curtatone. thesomervillenews.com

WAC Lighting's new Rococo Pendant features amber and opal frit, richly layered in speckles of gold to add a distinctive touch of glamour and elegance to any space. nightclub.com

Taiwan-based China Glaze Company is part of the China Glaze Group and Asia's largest manufacturing group specializing in the production of colors, glazes and frits for the ceramic industry. coatingsworld.com

The fabricator offers standard dot, line and diamond traction-control frit patterns, along with the capability to produce custom patterns. glassmagazine.net

Usage in scientific papers

I thank George Fraser, Gareth Price, Jay Bookbinder, Rich Kelley, Caroline Kilbourne, Enrico Costa, Takaya Ohashi, Simon De Deo, Nancy Brickhouse and Frits Paerels for valuable discussions.
The Extreme Physics Explorer

Najafi, “Reliable vacuum packaging using nanogetters and glass frit bonding”, Reliability, Testing and Characterization of MEMS/MOEMS III, Proc.
Surface Conditioning Effect on Vacuum Microelectronics Components Fabricated by Deep Reactive Ion Etching

For the driest foams at Orsay, bubbles are created by forcing gas through porous frits; by changing the porosity, the average bubble diameter can be varied from 1 to 4 mm.
Electrical conductivity of dispersions: from dry foams to dilute suspensions

For dry foams, 0.02 < ε < 0.10, a porous glass frit is mounted at one end of the conductivity cell, and the foam is made directly inside it by bubbling gas through the frit, which is immersed into the surfactant solution.
Electrical conductivity of dispersions: from dry foams to dilute suspensions

This proposition was immediately suggested by Frits Beukers in a private correspondence [Beu00].
Transformations of hypergeometric elliptic integrals

Usage in literature

My brother Frits got leave for the first time then, too, and Willem remained at Ladysmith. "On Commando" by Dietlof Van Warmelo

In powder frits together, but does not fuse. "A System of Instruction in the Practical Use of the Blowpipe" by Anonymous

Hvem vil en tone slaa frit mot det blide blaa? "An Essay Toward a History of Shakespeare in Norway" by Martin Brown Ruud

The formula for the frit and glaze is also a secret one. "The Story of Porcelain" by Sara Ware Bassett

I guess you was startled, too, mister, and kinder frit! "The Wreck of the Nancy Bell" by J. C. Hutcheson

If you was down dar in water jus' now, an' see dat long ting snouzle by um leg, lookin' so white an' drefful, I guess you'se frit too! "The White Squall" by John Conroy Hutcheson

The beads are nearly all of known Neolithic types; one form is noticeable, a blue frit cylinder with gold caps at the ends. "El Kab" by J.E. Quibell

I frit as if somehow all the happiness and joy of my life bring buried in that grave. "The Serapion Brethren," by Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann

Musca Frit, insectum quod grana interius exedit. "Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus" by William MacGillivray

We have made the acquaintance of Frits Reuter; he is a writer who draws one's heart. "Letters of a Javanese Princess" by Raden Adjeng Kartini