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cold welding

cold welding noun: a phenomenon where in a vacuum, two clean oxide-less uncoated metal surfaces will fuse, weld, or merge together when they come into contact with each other, without any other action required (without fusion heating). Also the present participle and gerund of cold weld.

Noun

cold welding (uncountable)

  1. A phenomenon where in a vacuum, two clean oxide-less uncoated metal surfaces will fuse, weld, or merge together when they come into contact with each other, without any other action required (without fusion heating).
    Synonyms:
    contact welding

Also used as

cold welding is also the present participle and gerund of cold weld.

Synonyms of cold welding

  • contact welding

Origin of cold welding

From cold + welding. From being a form of welding not requiring adding heat.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Questions about cold welding

What does cold welding mean?
Cold welding means a phenomenon where in a vacuum, two clean oxide-less uncoated metal surfaces will fuse, weld, or merge together when they come into contact with each other, without any other action required (without fusion heating).
What part of speech is cold welding?
Cold welding is a noun.

Words near cold welding in the dictionary

  1. cold waves
  2. cold weapon
  3. cold weapons
  4. cold weld
  5. cold welded
  6. cold welding
  7. cold welds
  8. cold without
  9. cold work
  10. cold worked
  11. cold working

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