METALLURGIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does metallurgist mean? 

• METALLURGIST (noun)
  The noun METALLURGIST has 1 sense:

1. an engineer trained in the extraction and refining and alloying and fabrication of metals

  Familiarity information: METALLURGIST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• METALLURGIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An engineer trained in the extraction and refining and alloying and fabrication of metals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

metallurgical engineer; metallurgist

Hypernyms ("metallurgist" is a kind of...):

applied scientist; engineer; technologist (a person who uses scientific knowledge to solve practical problems)

Instance hyponyms:

Bessemer; Sir Henry Bessemer (British inventor and metallurgist who developed the Bessemer process (1813-1898))

Derivation:

metallurgy (the science and technology of metals)

 Context examples 

Alleging temperatures of up to 1,000 degrees Celsius, Molony said metallurgists had opined when you get that level of temperature against steel it makes it brittle, and reduces its strength by up to 75 per cent.

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