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bimetallic

/baɪmɪˈtælɪk/

bimetallic adjective: pertaining to the use of gold and silver to create legal currency.

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

Noun

bimetallic (plural bimetallics)

  1. Anything (especially a nanoparticle) composed of two metals
    • Although the bimetallics that were tested, i.e., Au NPs supported on Ni, Fe and Cu appeared to be more active than the Au/SiO 2 system, only Cu supported Au NPs gave high conversion (ca. 63%) and selectivity (ca. 70%) to HYNE. Introduction Renewable naturally sourced carbohydrates, amino acids and...2015 November 19, “Catalytic Gas-Phase Glycerol Processing over SiO 2 -, Cu-, Ni- and Fe- Supported Au Nanoparticles”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

bimetallic meaning in Tamil

bimetallic in Tamil

ஈருலோக

Forms of bimetallic

pluralbimetallics

Origin of bimetallic

From French bimétallique. Equivalent to bi- + metallic.

Words formed from bimetallic

Phrases with bimetallic

Questions about bimetallic

What does bimetallic mean?
Bimetallic means pertaining to the use of gold and silver to create legal currency.
What is bimetallic in Tamil?
Bimetallic in Tamil is ஈருலோக. See Bimetallic meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is bimetallic?
Bimetallic can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce bimetallic?
Bimetallic is pronounced /baɪmɪˈtælɪk/.

Words near bimetallic in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bimetallic (page history and authors); bimetallic (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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