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meltings

meltings is the plural of melting.

Meaning of melting

Noun

melting (plural meltings)

  1. The process of changing the state of a substance from solid to liquid by heating it past its melting point.
    • Of all the transitions brought about on the Earth’s surface by temperature change, the melting of ice into water is the starkest. It is binary. And for the land beneath, the air above and the life around, it changes everything.2013 May 11, “The climate of Tibet: Pole-land”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8835, page 80
  2. (figuratively) The act of softening or mitigating.

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Questions about meltings

What is meltings the plural of?
Meltings is the plural of melting.

Words near meltings in the dictionary

  1. melting-pots
  2. meltingly
  3. meltingness
  4. meltingpoint
  5. meltingpoints
  6. meltings
  7. meltith
  8. meltiths
  9. meltoff
  10. meltoffs
  11. melton

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