Definition of "sintered"

When the works are in full production about 50 trains in and out will be needed daily for the conveyance of imported and home-produced ore, coal, oil, dolomite, limestone, slabs, ingot moulds and so on into the works and for the clearance of empty wagons and transport of sintered ore, slabs, steel sheets and other products.

1962 December, “Railways and the Spencer Steelworks”, in Modern Railways, page 410

The heavy, dark tungsten powder would be pressed, hammered, sintered at red heat, then drawn into finer and finer wire for the filaments.

2001, Oliver Sacks, Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood, Alfred A. Knopf (2001), 7