stainless steel
stainless steel noun: 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).
Noun
stainless steel (countable and uncountable, plural stainless steels)
- 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)
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stainless steel meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Kannada and Gujarati
stainless steel in Tamil
- ஒளியுருக்கு, துருவுறா எஃகு, துருப்பிடிக்கா எஃகு, கறையில்லுருக்கு, துருப்பிடியா உருக்கு, துருப்பிடியா எஃகு
stainless steel in Bengali
- corrosion-free ferrous alloy
- মরিচারোধক ইস্পাত moricarōdhok iśpat
stainless steel in Kannada
- ತುಕ್ಕು ಹಿಡಿಯದ ಉಕ್ಕು, ಸ್ಟೈನ್ಲೆಸ್ ಸ್ಟೀಲು
stainless steel in Gujarati
- corrosion-free ferrous alloy
- કાટરોધક પોલાદ kāṭrodhak polād
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- stainless steel in Arabic
- فُولَاذ مُقَاوِم لِلصَّدَأ fūlāḏ muqāwim li-ṣ-ṣadaʔ
- stainless steel in Malay
- keluli tahan karat
- stainless steel in Indonesian
- baja nirkarat
- stainless steel in Persian
- فولاد ضد زنگ fulâd-e zedd-e zang, استیل estil
- stainless steel in Thai
- เหล็กกล้าไร้สนิม lèk-glâa-rái-sà-nǐm
- stainless steel in Vietnamese
- i-nốc
Synonyms of stainless steel
Forms of stainless steel
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Words formed from stainless steel
Questions about stainless steel
- What does stainless steel mean?
- Stainless steel means 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).
- What is stainless steel in Tamil?
- Stainless steel in Tamil is ஒளியுருக்கு, துருவுறா எஃகு, துருப்பிடிக்கா எஃகு. See Stainless steel meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is stainless steel?
- Stainless steel is a noun.
- What is the plural of stainless steel?
- The plural of stainless steel is stainless steels.
Words near stainless steel in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: stainless steel (page history and authors); stainless steel (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); stainless steel (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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