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Plural of metal

regular plural

The plural of metal is metals.

Forms of metal

Singularmetal /ˈmɛ.təl/
Pluralmetals
Countablecountable and uncountable

Metals in a sentence

  • Earth is surrounded by a magnetosphere — an invisible bubble of magnetism generated by the powerful churning of molten metals at Earth’s core.2023 December 27, Mindy Weisberger, “Ancient bricks baked when Nebuchadnezzar II was king absorbed a power surge in Earth’s magnetic...
  • Most of the matter in stars is hydrogen and helium, and the metals (including carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and so on) were cooked up inside stars.2003, Michael A. Seeds, Astronomy: The Solar System and Beyond, Thomson Brooks/Cole, →ISBN
  • Today we studied about metals — including iron — at school.From the entry iron
  • The expansion of metals and plastics in response to heat is well understood.From the entry expansion
  • Water ligands typically bind metals in a labile fashion and are rapidly interchanged in aqueous solution.From the entry labile

Meaning of metal

  1. noun Any of a number of chemical elements in the periodic table that form a metallic bond with other metal atoms; generally shiny, somewhat malleable and hard, often a conductor of heat and electricity.
  2. noun Any material with similar physical properties as those chemical elements, especially as a combination of several of them, such as an alloy.
  3. noun An element which was not directly created after the Big Bang but instead formed through nuclear reactions; any element other than hydrogen and helium.

Full definition of metal

Questions about the plural of metal

What is the plural of metal?
The plural of metal is metals.
Is metal countable?
Metal is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: metal (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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