METALLURGY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does metallurgy mean? 

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

1. the science and technology of metals

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• METALLURGY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The science and technology of metals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

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

science; scientific discipline (a particular branch of scientific knowledge)

Domain member category:

pole (deoxidize molten metals by stirring them with a wooden pole)

alloy (make an alloy of)

alloy; debase (lower in value by increasing the base-metal content)

beneficiate (process (ores or other raw materials), as by reduction)

faggot; fagot (fasten together rods of iron in order to heat or weld them)

fine (free from impurities; having a high or specified degree of purity)

rich (high in mineral content; having a high proportion of fuel to air)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "metallurgy"):

powder metallurgy (the metallurgy of powdered metals; how to produce solid metal objects from powdered metal by compaction and sintering)

Derivation:

metallurgic; metallurgical (of or relating to metallurgy)

metallurgist (an engineer trained in the extraction and refining and alloying and fabrication of metals)