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pre-tin

pre-tin verb: to coat (a metal) with solder or tin alloy prior to soldering or brazing it.

Verb

pre-tin (third-person singular simple present pre-tins, present participle pre-tinning, simple past and past participle pre-tinned)

  1. (transitive) To coat (a metal) with solder or tin alloy prior to soldering or brazing it.

Forms of pre-tin

third-person singular presentpre-tins
present participlepre-tinning
past participlepre-tinned
pastpre-tinned

Origin of pre-tin

From pre- + tin.

Questions about pre-tin

What does pre-tin mean?
Pre-tin means to coat (a metal) with solder or tin alloy prior to soldering or brazing it.
What part of speech is pre-tin?
Pre-tin is a verb.
What is the past tense of pre-tin?
The past tense of pre-tin is pre-tinned.

Words near pre-tin in the dictionary

  1. pre-test
  2. pre-tests
  3. pre-theistic
  4. pre-theoretical
  5. pre-theoreticality
  6. pre-tin
  7. pre-tinned
  8. pre-tinning
  9. pre-tins
  10. pre-to-post
  11. pre-tonic

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