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alloy steels

alloy steels is the plural of alloy steel.

Meaning of alloy steel

Noun

alloy steel (countable and uncountable, plural alloy steels)

  1. Any of many steels whose alloy composition includes other elements besides the iron and carbon that all steels have, in order to improve the mechanical properties of the material.
    • The connecting rods are one-piece forgings of alloy steel with a copper/lead steel-backed bearing at the large end and a phosphor-bronze bush at the small end.1958 April, “British Railways First Main-Line Diesel-Hydraulic Locomotive”, in Railway Magazine, page 265

Questions about alloy steels

What is alloy steels the plural of?
Alloy steels is the plural of alloy steel.

Words near alloy steels in the dictionary

  1. alloxazine
  2. alloxenic
  3. alloxydim
  4. alloy
  5. alloy steel
  6. alloy steels
  7. alloy wheel
  8. alloy wheels
  9. alloyable
  10. alloyage
  11. alloyages

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