ALL meanings of alloy
al·loy
A a - variable noun alloy An alloy is a metal that is made by mixing two or more types of metal together. 4
- noun alloy a metallic material, such as steel, brass, or bronze, consisting of a mixture of two or more metals or of metallic elements with nonmetallic elements. Alloys often have physical properties markedly different from those of the pure metals 4
- noun alloy something that impairs the quality or reduces the value of the thing to which it is added 4
- verb alloy to debase (a pure substance) by mixing with an inferior element 4
- verb alloy to diminish or impair 4
- noun alloy the relative purity of gold or silver; fineness 3
- noun alloy a substance that is a mixture, as by fusion, of two or more metals, or of a metal and something else 3
- noun alloy a less valuable metal mixed with a more valuable one, often to give hardness 3
- noun alloy something that lowers the value or quality of another thing when mixed with it 3
- verb transitive alloy to make (a metal) less pure by mixing with a less valuable metal 3
- verb transitive alloy to mix (metals) to form an alloy 3
- verb transitive alloy to debase by mixing with something inferior 3
- noun alloy An alloy is a metal which is not pure because other elements have been added to it. 3
- verb alloy to add (one metal or element to another metal or element) to obtain a substance with a desired property 2
- noun alloy Mix (metals) to make an alloy. 1
- noun Definition of alloy in Technology (language) A language by Thanasis Mitsolides <[email protected]> which combines functional programming, object-oriented programming and logic programming ideas, and is suitable for massively parallel systems. Evaluating modes support serial or parallel execution, eager evaluation or lazy evaluation, nondeterminism or multiple solutions etc. ALLOY is simple as it only requires 29 primitives in all (half of which are for object oriented programming support). It runs on SPARC. 1
- noun alloy a substance composed of two or more metals, or of a metal or metals with a nonmetal, intimately mixed, as by fusion or electrodeposition. 1
- noun alloy a less costly metal mixed with a more valuable one. 1
- noun alloy standard; quality; fineness. 1
- noun alloy admixture, as of good with evil. 1
- noun alloy anything added that serves to reduce quality or purity. 1
- verb with object alloy to mix (metals or metal with nonmetal) so as to form an alloy. 1
- verb with object alloy to reduce in value by an admixture of a less costly metal. 1
- verb with object alloy to debase, impair, or reduce by admixture; adulterate. 1
- noun alloy metal 1
- noun alloy made of combined metals 1
- transitive verb alloy mix metal with sth 1
- noun alloy mixture 1
- noun alloy sth mixed, of reduced quality 1
- noun alloy A metal that is a combination of two or more elements, at least one of which is a metal. 0
- noun alloy An admixture; something added which stains, taints etc. 0
- verb alloy To mix or combine; often used of metals. 0
- verb alloy To reduce the purity of by mixing with a less valuable substance. 0
- verb alloy (figuratively) To impair or debase by mixture. 0