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- [met-l-ur-jee or, esp. British, muh-tal-er-jee]
- /ˈmɛt lˌɜr dʒi or, esp. British, məˈtæl ər dʒi/
- /məˈtæl.ə.dʒi/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [met-l-ur-jee or, esp. British, muh-tal-er-jee]
- /ˈmɛt lˌɜr dʒi or, esp. British, məˈtæl ər dʒi/
Definitions of metallurgy word
- noun metallurgy the technique or science of working or heating metals so as to give them certain desired shapes or properties. 1
- noun metallurgy the technique or science of making and compounding alloys. 1
- noun metallurgy the technique or science of separating metals from their ores. 1
- noun metallurgy The branch of science and technology concerned with the properties of metals and their production and purification. 1
- noun metallurgy processing metals 1
- uncountable noun metallurgy Metallurgy is the scientific study of the properties and uses of metals. 0
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Origin of metallurgy
First appearance:
before 1695 One of the 49% oldest English words
1695-1705; < New Latin metallurgia < Greek metallourg(ós) working in metals, mining + New Latin -ia -ia. See metall-, -urgy
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Parts of speech for Metallurgy
noun
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adverb
pronoun
preposition
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determiner
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metallurgy popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 85% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
This word is included in each student's vocabulary. Most likely there is at least one movie with this word in the title.
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noun metallurgy
- planning — a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
- design — When someone designs a garment, building, machine, or other object, they plan it and make a detailed drawing of it from which it can be built or made.
- architecture — Architecture is the art of planning, designing, and constructing buildings.
- structure — mode of building, construction, or organization; arrangement of parts, elements, or constituents: a pyramidal structure.
- blueprinting — a process of photographic printing, used chiefly in copying architectural and mechanical drawings, which produces a white line on a blue background.
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