smelting
English
Noun
smelting (plural smeltings)
- (metallurgy) The process of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore.
- 2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion:
- 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.
Translations
process of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore
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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]
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
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