metallurgy

English

Etymology

From French métallurgie, from Ancient Greek μεταλλουργός (metallourgós, “miner”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /məˈtæl.ə.d͡ʒi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛt.əˌlɚ.d͡ʒi/

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• The /məˈtælədʒi/ pronunciation is the more common one in the UK and the Commonwealth. The /ˈmɛtəˌlɝdʒi/ pronunciation is the more common one in the United States, and is the first-listed variant in various American dictionaries (e.g., Merriam-Webster Collegiate, American Heritage). Worldwide, both are accepted.

Noun

metallurgy (usually uncountable, plural metallurgies)

1. The science of metals; their extraction from ores, purification and alloying, heat treatment, and working.
   • 2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Evesham (1870)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 59:

     Fowler was also interested in metallurgy and the use of new materials that could withstand greater stresses, something he expounded on when giving his presidential address to the new Institution of Mechanical Engineers in 1927.

Usage notes

• Not to be confused with medallurgy.

Derived terms

• powder metallurgy

Related terms

• metallurgical
• metallurgist

Translations

science of metals

• Armenian: մետաղագործություն (hy) (metaġagorcutʻyun)
• Bulgarian: металургия f (metalurgija)
• Catalan: metal·lúrgia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 冶金 (zh) (yějīn), 冶金學／冶金学 (zh) (yějīnxué), 冶金術／冶金术 (zh) (yějīnshù)

• Czech: hutnictví n, metalurgie f
• Danish: metallurgi (da) c
• Dutch: metallurgie (nl) f
• Esperanto: metalurgio
• Finnish: metallurgia (fi)
• French: métallurgie (fr) f
• Galician: metalurxia (gl) f
• German: Metallurgie (de) f, Hüttenkunde f, Hüttenwesen (de) n
• Greek: μεταλλουργία (el) f (metallourgía)
• Hungarian: kohászat (hu)
• Ido: metalurgio (io)
• Irish: miotaleolaíocht f, miotalóireacht f
• Italian: metallurgia (it)
• Japanese: (for an act, a procedure) 冶金 (ja) (やきん, yakin), (for the academic subject)冶金学 (やきんがく, yakingaku), (for the technique) 冶金術 (やきんじゅつ, yakinjutsu), 金属工学 (きんぞくこうがく, kinzoku kougaku)
• Kazakh: металтану (metaltanu), металлургия (metallurgiä)
• Latin: metallurgia f
• Latvian: metalurģija f
• Malay: kaji logam, metalurgi (ms)
• Manx: meaineyraght f, meain-oayllys f
• Mongolian: металлурги (mn) (metallurgi)
• Navajo: béésh naalkaah
• Norman: métalleurgie f (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: metallurgi m

  Nynorsk: metallurgi m

• Occitan: metallurgia (oc) f
• Polish: metalurgia (pl) f
• Portuguese: metalurgia (pt) f
• Romanian: metalurgie (ro) f
• Russian: металлурги́я (ru) f (metallurgíja)
• Scottish Gaelic: obair-mheatailt f, obair-mheatailtean f
• Serbo-Croatian: metalurgija (sh) f
• Spanish: metalurgia (es) f
• Swedish: metallurgi (sv) c
• Tagalog: balahakan
• Turkish: metalürji (tr)
• Ukrainian: металу́ргія f (metalúrhija)
• Vietnamese: luyện kim (vi)
• Volapük: metalav (vo)
• Welsh: meteleg f

Further reading

• metallurgy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia