smelting

English

Verb

smelting

1. present participle of smelt

Noun

smelting (plural smeltings)

1. (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.

Derived terms

• smelt
• smelter

Translations

process of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore

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• Armenian: հալում (hy) (halum)
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• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 冶煉／冶炼 (zh) (yěliàn), 冶炼 (zh) (yěliàn), 熔煉／熔炼 (zh) (róngliàn), 熔炼 (zh) (róngliàn)

• Dutch: wegsmelten (nl), smelten (nl) n
• Finnish: pelkistyssulatus, sulatus (fi)
• French: fonte (fr) f, fonderie (fr)
• German: Schmelzen (de) n
• Greek:

  Ancient: χώνευσις f (khṓneusis)

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• Low German:

  German Low German: Smölten f or n

• Manx: lheie m
• Maori: whakarewa
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• Portuguese: fundição (pt) f
• Russian: пла́вка (ru) f (plávka)
• Spanish: fundición (es) f
• Swedish: smältning (sv)
• Tagalog: magluto
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See also

• smelting on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• meltings, minglest

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Old English

Alternative forms

• smilting, smyltinc, smylting

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *smeltan +‎ -ing. Compare Old High German smelzi, gismelzi (“fused mass, electrum, alloy”), Old Norse smeltr (“enamelled”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsmel.tinɡ/, [ˈsmeɫ.tiŋɡ]

Noun

smelting f

1. amber

Declension

Declension of smelting (strong ō-stem)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	smelting	smeltinga, smeltinge
accusative	smeltinge	smeltinga, smeltinge
genitive	smeltinge	smeltinga
dative	smeltinge	smeltingum

Descendants

• Middle English: smulting