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metallurgy (usually uncountable, plural metallurgies)
- The science of metals; their extraction from ores, purification and alloying, heat treatment, and working.
- ✤ Fowler was also interested in metallurgy and the use of new materials that could withstand greater stresses, something he expounded on when giving his presidential address to the new Institution of Mechanical Engineers in 1927.1
Etymology
From French métallurgie, from Ancient Greek μεταλλουργός (metallourgós, “miner”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA: /məˈtæl.ə.d͡ʒi/
- (US) IPA: /ˈmɛt.əˌlɝ.d͡ʒi/
- Audio (US): 🔊
- The/məˈtæləd͡ʒi/pronunciation is the more common one in the UK and the Commonwealth. The/ˈmɛtəˌlɝd͡ʒi/pronunciation is the more common one in the United States, and is the first-listed variant in various American dictionaries (e.g., Merriam-Webster Collegiate, American Heritage). Worldwide, both are accepted.
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Link to original Footnotes
2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Evesham (1870)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 59: ↩
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