al⋅loy
[n. al-oi, uh-loi; v. uh-loi] 
ɔɪ
| 1. | a substance composed of two or more metals, or of a metal or metals with a nonmetal, intimately mixed, as by fusion or electrodeposition. |
| 2. | a less costly metal mixed with a more valuable one. |
| 3. | standard; quality; fineness. |
| 4. | admixture, as of good with evil. |
| 5. | anything added that serves to reduce quality or purity. |
| 6. | to mix (metals or metal with nonmetal) so as to form an alloy. |
| 7. | to reduce in value by an admixture of a less costly metal. |
| 8. | to debase, impair, or reduce by admixture; adulterate. |
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| al·loy (āl'oi', ə-loi') n.
[Alteration (influenced by French aloi) of obsolete allay, from Middle English alay, from Old North French allai, from allayer, to alloy, from Latin alligāre, to bind : ad-, ad- + ligāre, to bind; see leig- in Indo-European roots.] |
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Alloy
Al*loy"\, n. [OE. alai, OF. alei, F. aloyer, to alloy, alier to ally. See Alloy, v. t.]1. Any combination or compound of metals fused together; a mixture of metals; for example, brass, which is an alloy of copper and zinc. But when mercury is one of the metals, the compound is called an amalgam. 2. The quality, or comparative purity, of gold or silver; fineness. 3. A baser metal mixed with a finer. Fine silver is silver without the mixture of any baser metal. Alloy is baser metal mixed with it. --Locke. 4. Admixture of anything which lessens the value or detracts from; as, no happiness is without alloy. "Pure English without Latin alloy." --F. Harrison.Alloy
Al*loy"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Alloyed; p. pr. & vb. n. Alloying.] [F. aloyer, OF. alier, allier, later allayer, fr. L. aligare. See Alloy, n., Ally, v. t., and cf. Allay.]1. To reduce the purity of by mixing with a less valuable substance; as, to alloy gold with silver or copper, or silver with copper. 2. To mix, as metals, so as to form a compound. 3. To abate, impair, or debase by mixture; to allay; as, to alloy pleasure with misfortunes.Alloy
Al*loy"\, v. t. To form a metallic compound. Gold and iron alloy with ease. --Ure.Cite This Source
alloy [(al-oy, uh-loy)]
A material made of two or more metals, or of a metal and another material. For example, brass is an alloy of copper and zinc; steel is an alloy of iron and carbon. Alloys often have unexpected characteristics. In the examples given above, brass is stronger than either copper or zinc, and steel is stronger than either iron or carbon.
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alloy
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Main Entry: al·loy
Pronunciation: 'al-"oi, &-'loi
Function: noun
1 : the degree of mixture with base metals
2 : asubstance composed of two or more metals or of a metal and a nonmetal intimately united usually by being fused together and dissolving in each other when molten; also : the state ofunion of the components —al·loy /&-'loi, 'al-"oi/ transitive verb
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alloy al·loy (āl'oi', ə-loi')
n.
A homogeneous mixture or solid solution of two or more metals, the atoms of one replacing or occupying interstitial positions between the atoms of the other.
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| alloy (āl'oi') Pronunciation Key
A metallic substance made by mixing and fusing two or more metals, or a metal and a nonmetal, to obtain desirable qualities such as hardness, lightness, and strength. Brass, bronze, and steel are all alloys. |
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ALLOY language
A language by Thanasis Mitsolides
Evaluating modes support serial or parallel execution, eager evaluation or lazy evaluation, nondeterminism or multiple solutions etc. ALLOY is simple as it only requires 29 primitives in all (half of which are for object oriented programming support).
It runs on SPARC.
(ftp://cs.nyu.edu/pub/local/alloy/).
["The Design and Implementation of ALLOY, a Parallel Higher Level Programming Language", Thanasis Mitsolides
(1991-06-11)
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