Crossword clues for alloy
alloy
- Solder or pewter
- Product of fusion
- Mix of metals
- Cast iron, e.g
- Bronze, for one
- Bronze, but not silver or gold
- Brass, e.g
- Steel, e.g
- Metallic blend like brass or pewter
- Magnalium, e.g
- Steel, for one
- Stainless steel or brass, e.g
- Solder, for one
- Solder, e.g
- Metal compound
- Heterogeneous union
- Cupronickel, e.g
- Alnico, e.g
- Sterling silver, say
- Steel or pewter
- Steel or brass
- Solder, for example
- Result of a metallic mixture
- Mixture of different metals
- Metallurgist's amalgam
- Metal fusion
- Metal combination
- Material formed from two or more metals
- Heavy metal mix, perhaps
- Dental gold, e.g
- Cupronickel, for one
- Combination of metals
- Combination metal such as pewter or steel
- Bronze or steel
- Blend of metals, like bronze or steel
- Alnico or chromel
- Brass or bronze, e.g
- Cupronickel, e.g.
- Solder, e.g.
- Mix, in a way
- Pewter or brass
- Fusion of metals
- Cast iron, e.g.
- Brass or pewter, e.g
- Metallurgist's creation
- Amalgam, e.g.
- Bronze, e.g.
- Dental gold, e.g.
- Many a filling material
- A mixture containing two or more metallic elements or metallic and nonmetallic elements usually fused together or dissolving into each other when molten
- The state of impairing the quality or reducing the value of something
- Amalgam, e.g
- Brass is one
- Fusible metal
- Pewter, for one
- Metal mixture
- Blend of metals, such as bronze
- Brass or steel, e.g
- Mixture of two metals
- Pewter, e.g.
- Mixture of two or more metals
- Mixture of metals
- Member of coalition receiving nothing to amalgamate?
- Eg brass or bronze
- Brass, for one
- Pewter, e.g
- Metallic mixture such as brass or bronze
- Bronze, e.g
- Bronze or brass, perhaps
- Mixed metal
- Metal mix
- Solder, say
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Alloy \Al*loy"\, n. [OE. alai, OF. alei, F. aloyer, to alloy, alier to ally. See Alloy, v. t.]
Any combination or compound of metals fused together; a mixture of metals; for example, brass, which is an alloy of copper and zinc. But when mercury is one of the metals, the compound is called an amalgam.
The quality, or comparative purity, of gold or silver; fineness.
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A baser metal mixed with a finer.
Fine silver is silver without the mixture of any baser metal. Alloy is baser metal mixed with it.
--Locke. Admixture of anything which lessens the value or detracts from; as, no happiness is without alloy. ``Pure English without Latin alloy.''
--F. Harrison.
Alloy \Al*loy"\, v. t. To form a metallic compound.
Gold and iron alloy with ease.
--Ure.
Alloy \Al*loy"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Alloyed; p. pr. & vb. n. Alloying.] [F. aloyer, OF. alier, allier, later allayer, fr. L. aligare. See Alloy, n., Ally, v. t., and cf. Allay.]
To reduce the purity of by mixing with a less valuable substance; as, to alloy gold with silver or copper, or silver with copper.
To mix, as metals, so as to form a compound.
To abate, impair, or debase by mixture; to allay; as, to alloy pleasure with misfortunes.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 14c. "relative freedom of a noble metal from alloy or other impurities," from Anglo-French alai, Old French aloi, from aloiier (see alloy (v.)). Meaning " base metal alloyed with a noble metal" is from c.1400. Modern spelling from late 17c.\n
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 A metal that is a combination of two or more elements, at least one of which is a metal. 2 An admixture; something added which stains, taints etc. Etymology 2
vb. 1 To mix or combine; often used of metals. 2 To reduce the purity of by mixing with a less valuable substance. 3 (context figurative English) To impair or debase by mixture.
WordNet
v. lower in value by increasing the base-metal content [syn: debase]
make an alloy of
Wikipedia
Alloy is the fourth studio album by the Finnish funeral doom band Skepticism.
Alloy is the debut album by heavy metal act Trillium. It was released in 2011 by the Italian record label Frontiers Records in Europe.
An alloy is a material composed of two or more metals or a metal and a nonmetal.
Alloy may also refer to:
- Alloy (specification language), a declarative specification language
- Alloy wheel, wheels made from an alloy of aluminum or magnesium
- Alloy, West Virginia, an unincorporated community in the United States
An alloy is a mixture of metals or a mixture of a metal and another element. Alloys are defined by a metallic bonding character. An alloy may be a solid solution of metal elements (a single phase) or a mixture of metallic phases (two or more solutions). Intermetallic compounds are alloys with a defined stoichiometry and crystal structure. Zintl phases are also sometimes considered alloys depending on bond types (see also: Van Arkel-Ketelaar triangle for information on classifying bonding in binary compounds).
Alloys are used in a wide variety of applications. In some cases, a combination of metals may reduce the overall cost of the material while preserving important properties. In other cases, the combination of metals imparts synergistic properties to the constituent metal elements such as corrosion resistance or mechanical strength. Examples of alloys are steel, solder, brass, pewter, duralumin, phosphor bronze and amalgams.
The alloy constituents are usually measured by mass. Alloys are usually classified as substitutional or interstitial alloys, depending on the atomic arrangement that forms the alloy. They can be further classified as homogeneous (consisting of a single phase), or heterogeneous (consisting of two or more phases) or intermetallic.
In computer science and software engineering, Alloy is a declarative specification language for expressing complex structural constraints and behavior in a software system. Alloy provides a simple structural modeling tool based on first-order logic. The mathematical underpinnings of the language were heavily influenced by the Z notation, although the syntax of Alloy owes more to languages such as Object Constraint Language. Alloy is targeted at the creation of micro-models that can then be automatically checked for correctness. Alloy specifications can be checked using the Alloy Analyzer.
The first version of the Alloy language appeared in 1997. It was a rather limited object modeling language. Succeeding iterations of the language "added quantifiers, higher arity relations, polymorphism, subtyping, and signatures". Although Alloy is designed with automatic analysis in mind, Alloy differs from many specification languages designed for model-checking in that it permits the definition of infinite models. The Alloy Analyzer is designed to perform finite scope checks even on infinite models.
Usage examples of "alloy".
The cupellation of large quantities of alloy or of alloys which contain tin, antimony, iron, or any substance which produces a scoria, or corrodes the cupel, must be preceded by a scorification.
With a large number of bullion assays systematically worked and checked a simple plan would be to always use the quantity of lead required by the alloy containing most copper which turns up for assay.
This I afterwards ascertained beyond doubt to be a metalloid alloy whereof the principal ingredient was aluminium, or some substance so closely resembling it as not to be distinguishable from it by simple chemical tests.
Where practicable, metals and alloys are best sampled by melting and granulating.
Should not a magistrate be not merely the best administrator of the law, but the most crafty expounder of the chicanery of his profession, a steel probe to search hearts, a touchstone to try the gold which in each soul is mingled with more or less of alloy?
Most alloys have to be formed at high temperatures because of miscibility problems, among other things.
Aluminium alloys, monocoque construction, far advanced over the flimsy old wooden contraptions that were used in the war.
The panzer emerges into a clearing, where a metal maintenance shack rusts on its slab of concrete, and in that brief moment Cowboy fires a chaff rocket straight up and dives among the alloy trees once more.
Partly for these reasons, and partly because its electric character makes it especially capable of being rendered at will pervious or impervious to the apergic current, I resolved to make the outer and inner walls of an alloy of .
George Anthony was the masked criminal who had hired the Rego mob to steal the alloy powder.
If, in the example just given, the quantity of gold present was really 7 or even 9 milligrams of gold, the resulting alloy would still have been suitable for such partings.
Nylan brought the hammer down on the faintly red alloy, scattering sparklets of oxides.
X-ray fluorescence spectrophotometer specifically designed for alloy analysis.
Fortunately, the two spectrophotometers allow us to assemble a library of photographs of the microscopic appearance of alloys of known composition.
A sudden, startling white-light image showed living, breathing Siamese twins, impossibly transected to expose raw pink-and-gray muscles working side-by-side with shape-memory alloys and piezoelectric actuators, flesher and gleisner anatomies interpenetrating.