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met·al·lur·gy

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–noun

1.	the technique or science of working or heating metals so as to give them certain desired shapes or properties.

2.	the technique or science of making and compounding alloys.

3.	the technique or science of separating metals from their ores.

[Origin: 1695–1705; < NL metallurgia < Gk metallourg(ós) working in metals, mining + NL -ia -ia. See metall-, -urgy

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met·al·lur·gic, met·al·lur·gi·cal, adjective

met·al·lur·gi·cal·ly, adverb

met·al·lur·gist

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n.

The science that deals with procedures used in extracting metals from their ores, purifying and alloying metals, and creating useful objects from metals.
The study of metals and their properties in bulk and at the atomic level.

[New Latin metallūrgia, from Greek metallourgos, miner, worker in metals : metallon, a mine, metal + -ourgos, -worker (from ergon, work; see werg- in Indo-European roots).]

met'al·lur'gic, met'al·lur'gi·cal adj., met'al·lur'gi·cal·ly adv., met'al·lur'gist n.

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metallurgy

1704, from Gk. metallourgos "worker in metal," from metallon "metal" (see metal) + ergon "work" (see urge (v.)).

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metallurgy
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the science and technology of metals

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metallurgy Audio Help (mět'l-ûr'jē) Pronunciation Key
The scientific study and technology of extracting metals from ores, refining them for use, and creating alloys and useful objects from them.

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Metallurgy

Met"al*lur`gy\, n. [F. m['e]tallurgie, fr. L. metallum metal, Gr. ? a mine + the root of ? work. See Metal, and Work.] The art of working metals, comprehending the whole process of separating them from other matters in the ore, smelting, refining, and parting them; sometimes, in a narrower sense, only the process of extracting metals from their ores.

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Metallurgy

Work\, n. [OE. work, werk, weork, AS. weorc, worc; akin to OFries. werk, wirk, OS., D., & G. werk, OHG. werc, werah, Icel. & Sw. verk, Dan. v[ae]rk, Goth. gawa['u]rki, Gr. ?, ?, work, ? to do, ? an instrument, ? secret rites, Zend verez to work. ????. Cf. Bulwark, Energy, Erg, Georgic, Liturgy, Metallurgy, Organ, Surgeon, Wright.]

1. Exertion of strength or faculties; physical or intellectual effort directed to an end; industrial activity; toil; employment; sometimes, specifically, physically labor.

Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed. --Milton.

2. The matter on which one is at work; that upon which one spends labor; material for working upon; subject of exertion; the thing occupying one; business; duty; as, to take up one's work; to drop one's work.

Come on, Nerissa; I have work in hand That you yet know not of. --Shak.

In every work that he began . . . he did it with all his heart, and prospered. --2 Chron. xxxi. 21.

3. That which is produced as the result of labor; anything accomplished by exertion or toil; product; performance; fabric; manufacture; in a more general sense, act, deed, service, effect, result, achievement, feat.

To leave no rubs or blotches in the work. --Shak.

The work some praise, And some the architect. --Milton.

Fancy . . . Wild work produces oft, and most in dreams. --Milton.

The composition or dissolution of mixed bodies . . . is the chief work of elements. --Sir K. Digby.

4. Specifically: (a) That which is produced by mental labor; a composition; a book; as, a work, or the works, of Addison. (b) Flowers, figures, or the like, wrought with the needle; embroidery.

I am glad I have found this napkin; . . . I'll have the work ta'en out, And give 't Iago. --Shak. (c) pl. Structures in civil, military, or naval engineering, as docks, bridges, embankments, trenches, fortifications, and the like; also, the structures and grounds of a manufacturing establishment; as, iron works; locomotive works; gas works. (d) pl. The moving parts of a mechanism; as, the works of a watch.

5. Manner of working; management; treatment; as, unskillful work spoiled the effect. --Bp. Stillingfleet.

6. (Mech.) The causing of motion against a resisting force. The amount of work is proportioned to, and is measured by, the product of the force into the amount of motion along the direction of the force. See Conservation of energy, under Conservation, Unit of work, under Unit, also Foot pound, Horse power, Poundal, and Erg.

Energy is the capacity of doing work . . . Work is the transference of energy from one system to another. --Clerk Maxwell.

7. (Mining) Ore before it is dressed. --Raymond.

8. pl. (Script.) Performance of moral duties; righteous conduct.

He shall reward every man according to his works. --Matt. xvi. 27.

Faith, if it hath not works, is dead. --James ii. 17.

Muscular work (Physiol.), the work done by a muscle through the power of contraction.

To go to work, to begin laboring; to commence operations; to contrive; to manage. "I 'll go another way to work with him." --Shak.

To set on work, to cause to begin laboring; to set to work. [Obs.] --Hooker.

To set to work, to employ; to cause to engage in any business or labor.

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