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Meaning of 'Alloy' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . 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.
- A baser metal mixed with a finer.
- Admixture of anything which lessens the value or detracts from; as, no happiness is without alloy.
- 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.
- To form a metallic compound.

Meaning of 'Alloy' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . alloy [ n]
Meaning (1):
- a mixture containing two or more metallic elements or metallic and nonmetallic elements usually fused together or dissolving into each other when molten
Example in sentence:
  • brass is an alloy of zinc and copper

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