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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 process
Familiarity information: OPEN-HEARTH used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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