| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| metallurgy (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. |