"self-etch" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more self-etch",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most self-etch",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "self-etch (comparative more self-etch, superlative most self-etch)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
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            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Dentistry",
          "orig": "en:Dentistry",
          "parents": [
            "Medicine",
            "Teeth",
            "Biology",
            "Sciences",
            "Mouth",
            "All topics",
            "Face",
            "Fundamental",
            "Head and neck",
            "Body parts",
            "Body",
            "Anatomy",
            "Human"
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          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2014, Michelle Sunico-Segarra, Armin Segarra, A Practical Clinical Guide to Resin Cements, page 30",
          "text": "A common step usually ignored in self-etch adhesives is the air-drying after adhesive application.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Zhou Xuedong, Dental Caries: Principles and Management, page 119",
          "text": "The self-etch system only makes the smear layer permeable without completely removing it because of the lack of the separate etching step.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017, Pekka Vallittu, Mutlu Özcan, Clinical Guide to Principles of Fiber-Reinforced Composites in Dentistry, page 90",
          "text": "Water is an essential component of self-etch adhesives as it is needed in the ionization of acidic monomers.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Pertaining to adhesive systems for bonding fillings to teeth that combine the etching and priming phases into a single step."
      ],
      "id": "en-self-etch-en-adj-SxzNGGL1",
      "links": [
        [
          "dentistry",
          "dentistry"
        ],
        [
          "adhesive",
          "adhesive"
        ],
        [
          "bond",
          "bond"
        ],
        [
          "filling",
          "filling"
        ],
        [
          "etch",
          "etch"
        ],
        [
          "priming",
          "prime"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dentistry) Pertaining to adhesive systems for bonding fillings to teeth that combine the etching and priming phases into a single step."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "dentistry",
        "medicine",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "self-etch"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more self-etch",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most self-etch",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "self-etch (comparative more self-etch, superlative most self-etch)",
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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        "English terms with quotations",
        "en:Dentistry"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2014, Michelle Sunico-Segarra, Armin Segarra, A Practical Clinical Guide to Resin Cements, page 30",
          "text": "A common step usually ignored in self-etch adhesives is the air-drying after adhesive application.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Zhou Xuedong, Dental Caries: Principles and Management, page 119",
          "text": "The self-etch system only makes the smear layer permeable without completely removing it because of the lack of the separate etching step.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2017, Pekka Vallittu, Mutlu Özcan, Clinical Guide to Principles of Fiber-Reinforced Composites in Dentistry, page 90",
          "text": "Water is an essential component of self-etch adhesives as it is needed in the ionization of acidic monomers.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Pertaining to adhesive systems for bonding fillings to teeth that combine the etching and priming phases into a single step."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "dentistry",
          "dentistry"
        ],
        [
          "adhesive",
          "adhesive"
        ],
        [
          "bond",
          "bond"
        ],
        [
          "filling",
          "filling"
        ],
        [
          "etch",
          "etch"
        ],
        [
          "priming",
          "prime"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(dentistry) Pertaining to adhesive systems for bonding fillings to teeth that combine the etching and priming phases into a single step."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "dentistry",
        "medicine",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "self-etch"
}