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OPEN-HEARTH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does open-hearth mean? 

OPEN-HEARTH (adjective)
  The adjective OPEN-HEARTH has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to or produced by the open-hearth processplay

  Familiarity information: OPEN-HEARTH used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


OPEN-HEARTH (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to or produced by the open-hearth process

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

open-hearth steel

Pertainym:

open-hearth furnace (a furnace for making steel in which the steel is placed on a shallow hearth and flames of burning gas and hot air play over it)


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