stainless steel

See also: stainless-steel

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Noun

stainless steel (countable and uncountable, plural stainless steels)

2. Any of a class of steels that resist corrosion; they are all alloys of iron, chromium, and carbon, and most also contain certain other elements as well (such as molybdenum, nickel, cobalt, or others).

   Synonyms: SS, stainless (ellipsis); inox (attributive)

   Hypernyms: alloy steel < steel < metal < material

   Coordinate term: carbon steel

   Near-synonym: CRES (broadly synonymous)

   • 1955 April, Cecil J. Allen, “British Locomotive Practice and Performance”, in Railway Magazine, page 261:

     Equally I can stand in a station like Lucerne in Switzerland, and watch with ill-concealed admiration the majestic entry of one of the latest Gotthard "Ae 6/6" electrics, packing 6,000 horsepower within its 60 ft. of length and 121 tons of weight, with its sleek dark green sides and handsome stainless steel bands and front wings.

   • 2024 January 26, Madeline Holcombe and Sandee LaMotte, “Stanley and other drink cups contain lead. Should you be worried?”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     Lead is used as part of the tumbler’s vacuum insulation and is covered by a stainless steel layer that protects consumers from lead exposure, according to the Stanley cup manufacturer, Pacific Market International.

Usage notes

The adjectives stainless, inoxidizable, and rustproof with reference to stainless steels are used notionally and hyperbolically (rather than literally) but are nonetheless conventional and established (the idiomatic norm).

Derived terms

• stainless steel soap

Translations

corrosion-free ferrous alloy

• Altai:

  Southern Altai: татабас болот (tatabas bolot), таттабас болот (tattabas bolot)

• Arabic: فُولَاذ مُقَاوِم لِلصَّدَأ m (fūlāḏ muqāwim li-ṣ-ṣadaʔ)
• Bengali: মরিচারোধক ইস্পাত (moricarōdhok iśpat), ^{(please verify)} বেদাগ ইস্পাত (bedag iśpat)
• Bulgarian: неръждаема стомана f (nerăždaema stomana)
• Catalan: acer inoxidable m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 不鏽鋼 / 不锈钢 (zh) (búxiùgāng)

• Czech: nerez (cs) f, nerezavějící ocel f
• Danish: rustfrit stål n
• Dutch: roestvrij staal n, edelstaal (nl) n, roestvast staal n, rvs (nl) n
• Finnish: ruostumaton teräs (fi), ruostumaton (fi), rosteri (fi)
• French: acier inoxydable (fr) m, inox (fr) m
• Galician: aceiro inoxidábel (gl) m, aceiro inoxidable (gl) m
• German: Edelstahl (de) m
• Greek: ανοξείδωτο ατσάλι n (anoxeídoto atsáli)
• Gujarati: કાટરોધક પોલાદ (kāṭrodhak polād)
• Hebrew: פְּלָדַת אַלְחֶלֶד f, נִירוֹסְטָה f (loanword)
• Hungarian: rozsdamentes acél (hu)
• Icelandic: ryðfrítt stál n
• Indonesian: baja nirkarat
• Irish: cruach dhosmálta f
• Italian: acciaio inossidabile (it) m, acciaio inox m
• Japanese: 不銹鋼 (ja) (ふしゅうこう, fushūkō), 不錆鋼 (ふせいこう, fuseikō), ステンレス鋼 (ja) (ステンレスこう, sutenresu-kō), ステンレススチール (ja) (sutenresu-suchīru), ステンレス・スティール (sutenresu-sutīru), ステンレス (ja) (sutenresu), SUS (sasu)
• Korean: 불수강(不銹鋼) (bulsugang), 스테인리스강 (seuteilliseugang), 스테인리스 스틸 (seuteinriseu seutil)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: не’рѓосувачки челик m (ne’rǵosuvački čelik)
• Malay: keluli tahan karat
• Māori: maitai waikurakore
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: rustfritt stål n

  Nynorsk: rustfritt stål n

• Persian: فولاد ضد زنگ (fulâd-e zedd-e zang), استیل (fa) (estil)
• Polish: stal nierdzewna f, inox (pl) m inan
• Portuguese: aço inoxidável (pt) m
• Russian: нержаве́ющая сталь f (neržavéjuščaja stalʹ), (colloquial) нержаве́йка (ru) f (neržavéjka)
• Slovak: nehrdzavejúca oceľ f, antikoro n
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: wuběrny stal m

  Upper Sorbian: drohi wocl m, drohowocl m

• Spanish: acero inoxidable m
• Swedish: rostfritt stål n
• Thai: เหล็กกล้าไร้สนิม (lèk-glâa-rái-sà-nǐm)
• Turkish: paslanmaz çelik (tr)
• Vietnamese: i-nốc
• Welsh: dur gloyw m, dur di-staen m

made of corrosion-free ferrous alloy; [made of] corrosion-free ferrous alloy

• Bulgarian: от неръждаваема стомана (ot nerăždavaema stomana)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 不鏽鋼 / 不锈钢 (zh) (búxiùgāng)

• Finnish: ruostumaton teräs- (fi), rosterinen
• French: d'acier inoxydable (fr), en acier inoxydable (fr), inox (fr)
• Galician: de aceiro inoxidábel (gl) m
• Greek: ανοξείδωτος χάλυβας m (anoxeídotos chályvas)
• Italian: d'acciaio inossidabile (it), in acciaio inossidabile (it)
• Macedonian: од не’рѓосувачки челик (od ne’rǵosuvački čelik)
• Persian: استیل (fa) (estil)
• Polish: nierdzewny (pl)
• Russian: из нержавеющей стали (iz neržavejuščej stali)
• Spanish: de acero inoxidable m
• Swedish: i rostfritt stål n
• Turkish: paslanmaz çelik (tr)