Glossary of Terms
Common mold terms
Topics in this section
Absolute ram speed profile
Air shot
Air trap
Amorphous polymers
Anisotropic shrinkage
Annular gate
Annular runner
Aspect ratio
Back pressure
Baffle
Balanced flow
Barrel
Barrel capacity
Barrel effect
Base point
Batch
Bending moment
Birefringence
Boss
Boundary representation solid
Bounded runoff surface
B-splines
Bubble
Bubbler
Buckling
Burn mark
Computer-aided design (CAD)
Computer-aided manufacturing (CAM)
Cavity
Center gate
Charge stroke
Check ring
Chiller
Circular runner
Circular sprue
Circular tapered arc gate
Circular tapered gate
Circular tapered runner
Circular tapered sprue
Clamp capacity
Clamp force
Closed loop controller
Cold slug
Cold slug well
Compensating phase
Composite curve
Compressibility model
Conic arc
Control limits
Cooling channel
Cooling time
Core
Core cavity plate clearance
Core pin
Core pocket depth
Cracking
Crystalline morphology
Crystalline polymers
Crystallinity
Crystallization
Cure
Curve
Cushion
Cycle time
Decompression
Delamination
Density
Design of experiments (DOE)
Disc or diaphragm gate
Dominant flow path
Draft angle
Drooling
Dwell
Dynamic preview
Edge gate
Ejection
Ejection temperature
Ejection time
Ejector pins
End of fill
Extensional viscosity
Family abbreviation
Family name
Fan gate
Feasible molding window
Fiber orientation
Filler
Fillet
Filling phase
Filling time
Flash
Flow leaders and deflectors
Flow path
Free-form curves and surfaces
Friction
Gas fingering
Gate
Gate freeze
Gate scar
Gloss mark
Heat transfer pipe
Heel
Hesitation
High cushion
Holding Phase
Hopper
Hydraulic pressure
Injection cone
Injection location
Injection pressure
Injection time
Injection velocity
Injection volume
Insert
Insert sketch
Isotropic material
Jetting
Juncture loss
Laminar flow
Lifter
Lifter angle
Loop
Machine intensification ratio
Master batch
Meld line
Melt density
Melt temperature
Model
Mold
Mold base
Mold open time
Mold opening direction
Mold temperature
Molding window
Multi-body
Multi-cavity mold
Network runners
No-flow temperature
Nominal part thickness
Non-return valve
Normalized thickness
Nozzle pressure
O-ring
Open loop controller
Optimization
Orientation
Orthotropic material
Over packing
Packing phase
Packing time
Part
Parting diagnostic
Parting plane
Pinpoint gate
Placement plane
Placement reference point
Plastic part direction
Plastication
Point
Poisson's ratio
Polymer
Preferred molding window
Pressure gradient
Pressure phase
Pressure profile
Pressure stroke
Pressurization phase
Process control
Process parameters
Process window
Processing conditions
Production run
Pull direction
Purging
Pressure-Volume-Temperature (PVT)
Racetrack effect
Radiate runoff surface
Ram
Ram speed profile
Record groove
Rectangular gate
Rectangular runner
Region
Relative ram speed profile
Restricted gate
Reynolds number
Rib
Run
Runner and Runner system
Runner loops
Runoff loop
Runoff surface
Screw
Screw back position
Screw displacement
Screw forward position
Screw velocity
Semicircular gate
Semicircular runner
Semicrystalline
Set points
Shear
Shear heating
Shear rate
Shear strain
Shear stress
Shell
Short shot
Shot size
Shot weight
Shrinkage
Side core
Sink mark
Solid
Specific heat
Spiral core
Sprue
SSORCG solver
Start of fill
STL file
Stop pin
Streak mark color
Streak mark dark
Streak Mark Glass Fiber
Streak mark white
Stroke
Subgate
Suck back
Surface
Surface direction
Switchover
Tensile strength
Tessellation
Thermal conductivity
Thermal Degradation
Thick and chunky
Tooling noise
Transducer
Transition temperature
Translator
Trapezoidal Runner
Trimmed surface
Turbulent flow
Unbalanced flow
Undercut
Underflow
Unidirectional flow
Valve gate
Velocity stroke
Velocity to pressure switchover
Vent
Venting
Viscosity
Viscosity index
Viscosity model
Voids
VRML image
Warpage
Weld line
Wire-sweep index
Workpiece
Zero screw position
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Mold Design