smelting
English
editVerb
editsmelting
- present participle and gerund of smelt
Noun
editsmelting (plural smeltings)
- (metallurgy) The process of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore.
- 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion[1]:
- Buried within the Mediterranean littoral are some seventy to ninety million tons of slag from ancient smelting, about a third of it concentrated in Iberia. This ceaseless industrial fueling caused the deforestation of an estimated fifty to seventy million acres of woodlands.
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editprocess of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore
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editOld English
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editEtymology
editFrom Proto-West Germanic *smeltan + -ing. Compare Old High German smelzi, gismelzi (“fused mass, electrum, alloy”), Old Norse smeltr (“enamelled”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editsmelting f
Declension
editStrong ō-stem:
singular | plural | |
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nominative | smelting | smeltinga, smeltinge |
accusative | smeltinge | smeltinga, smeltinge |
genitive | smeltinge | smeltinga |
dative | smeltinge | smeltingum |
Descendants
edit- Middle English: smulting
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