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molten

adj
/ˈmɒltən/UK/ˈmoʊltən/US

Etymology

From Middle English molten, from Old English molten, ġemolten (“melted, molten”), from Proto-Germanic *multanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *meltaną (“to melt”). Cognate with Scots moltin, Swedish multen.

  1. derived from *meltaną✻ — “to melt”
  2. inherited from *multanaz✻
  3. inherited from molten
  4. inherited from molten

Definitions

  1. Melted, especially due to great heat

    • molten metal, wax, rock
    • Earth is surrounded by a magnetosphere — an invisible bubble of magnetism generated by the powerful churning of molten metals at Earth’s core.

  2. Made from a melted substance.

  3. Glowing red-hot.

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. past participle of melt

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at molten. 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.

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A definitional loop anchored at molten. 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 molten

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA