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.
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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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