- 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