alloy
nounEtymology
Modification of Middle English alayen after Etymology 1, from Middle French allayer, vairant of allier, from Old French allier (“assemble, join”), from Latin alligare (“bind to, tie to”), compound of ad (“to”) + ligare (“to bind”).
Definitions
A metal that is a combination of two or more elements, at least one of which is a metal,…
A metal that is a combination of two or more elements, at least one of which is a metal, a base metal.
A metal of lesser value, mixed with a metal of greater value.
- gold without alloy
- Many of these coins are preserved at the British Museum, in London, and at the Ashmolean Museum, in Oxford, and are all of pure gold, without alloy, and in a good state of preservation. Boadicea, Queen of the Iceni, is also said to have[…]
An admixture
An admixture; something added which stains, taints etc.
- Metrodorus said that in sadnesse there is some aloy of pleasure.
- The sole grievance and alloy thus removed in the prospect of Harriet’s welfare, she was really in danger of becoming too happy for security.
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Fusion, marriage, combination.
To mix or combine
To mix or combine; often used of metals.
To reduce the purity of by mixing with a less valuable substance.
- to alloy gold with silver or copper, or silver with copper
To impair or debase by mixture.
- to alloy pleasure with misfortunes
The neighborhood
- synonymalloy
- neighbor:Category:Alloys
- neighbormixture
- neighborbrass
- neighborbronze
- neighborsteel
- neighborphosphor bronze
- neighborwhite gold
- neighborAlloys in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
- neighborin .
Derived
alloyable, alloy steel, alloy wheel, bioalloy, Carboloy, ceramal, eutectic alloy, ferroalloy, Field's alloy, Graphalloy, Heusler alloy, high-entropy alloy, high entropy alloy, Lipowitz's alloy, magnesium alloy, microalloy, nanoalloy, nonalloy, octoalloy, permalloy, pyrophoric alloy, realloy, shape memory alloy, skin forming alloy, superalloy, ternary alloy, titanium alloy, Wood's alloy
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at alloy. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at alloy. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
10 hops · closes at alloy
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