OPEN-HEARTH PROCESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does open-hearth process mean? 

• OPEN-HEARTH PROCESS (noun)
  The noun OPEN-HEARTH PROCESS has 1 sense:

1. a process for making steel using an open-hearth furnace

  Familiarity information: OPEN-HEARTH PROCESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OPEN-HEARTH PROCESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A process for making steel using an open-hearth furnace

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("open-hearth process" is a kind of...):

steel production (making steel from pig iron)