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bimetalic

bimetalic is the alternative form of bimetallic.

Meaning of bimetallic

Adjective

bimetallic (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to the use of gold and silver to create legal currency.
    • We well suppose that a Minister needs information as to a point which involves the Navy, India, Canada and the bimetallic question.1908, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans, Norton, published 2005, page 1302
  2. More generally, consisting of two metals.
    • "We have a special coupler that joins them together to prevent the bi-metallic corrosion you'd get if the stainless steel and the galvanised steel touched each other. […]"2024 May 29, Nick Brodrick, “Between a rock and a wet place...”, in RAIL, number 1010, page 43

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Questions about bimetalic

What is bimetalic the alternative form of?
Bimetalic is the alternative form of bimetallic.

Words near bimetalic in the dictionary

  1. bimestrial
  2. bimestrially
  3. bimetal
  4. bimetal strip
  5. bimetal strips
  6. bimetalic
  7. bimetalism
  8. bimetalist
  9. bimetalists
  10. bimetallic
  11. bimetallic strip

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