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stainless-steel

stainless-steel is the alternative spelling of stainless steel.

Meaning of stainless steel

Noun

stainless steel (countable and uncountable, plural stainless steels)

  1. Any of a class of steels that resist corrosion; they are all alloys of iron, chromium, and carbon, and most also contain certain other elements as well (such as molybdenum, nickel, cobalt, or others).
    • Near-synonym: CRES (broadly synonymous)
    Synonyms:
    SS, stainless, inox, CRES[Appendix:Glossary

Questions about stainless-steel

What is stainless-steel the alternative spelling of?
Stainless-steel is the alternative spelling of stainless steel.

Words near stainless-steel in the dictionary

  1. Stainland and District
  2. stainless
  3. stainless steel
  4. stainless steel soap
  5. stainless steels
  6. stainless-steel
  7. stainlesses
  8. stainlessly
  9. stainlessness
  10. Stainmore
  11. stainproof

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