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bimetallic strips

bimetallic strips is the plural of bimetallic strip.

Meaning of bimetallic strip

Noun

bimetallic strip (plural bimetallic strips)

  1. A thin strip made from a sandwich of two different metals, the metals having different rates of expansion with temperature, so that an increase in temperature causes the strip to bend one way, and a decrease causes it to bend the other; used in various devices such as thermostats.

Questions about bimetallic strips

What is bimetallic strips the plural of?
Bimetallic strips is the plural of bimetallic strip.

Words near bimetallic strips in the dictionary

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

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