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Bimetal

Definitions: Bimetal

Bimetal

Adjective

1. Formed of two different metals or alloys; especially in sheets bonded together.

Noun

1. Material made by bonding together sheets of two different metals.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Specialty Definitions: Bimetal

DomainDefinitions

Energy

Two metals of different coefficients of expansion welded together so that the piece will bend in one direction when heated, and in the other when cooled, and can be used to open or close electrical circuits, as in thermostats. (references)

Environment

Beverage containers with steel bodies and aluminum tops; handled differently from pure aluminum in recycling. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: Bimetal

Synonym: bimetallic (adj). (additional references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Bimetal

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  bimetal

34

  bimetal thermometer

30

  bimetal thermostat

14

  bimetal rivet

11

  bearing bimetal

4

  bimetal strip

2

  bimetal rivets.com

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Bimetal

Language Translations for "bimetal"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

双金属. (various references)

   

Danish

  

bimetalelement (bimetallic element, bimetallic strip), bimetal (bimetallic strip, bimetallism). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

bimetaal (bimetallic element, bimetallic strip, bimetallism). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

bimetalliliuska (bimetallic element, bimetallic strip). (various references)

   

French

  

bimetallique, bimétal (bimetallic strip, bimetallism), bilame (bimetallic element, bimetallic strip), métal plaqué. (various references)

   

German

  

Bimetallstreifen (bimetallic element, bimetallic strip), bimetallisch, Bimetallelement (bimetallic element, bimetallic strip), Bimetalle (clad material, composite material), Bimetall (bimetallic strip, bimetallism), Verbundwerkstoff (clad material, composite, composite material), plattierte Werkstoffe (clad material, composite material). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

διμέταλλοσ, διμεταλλικό έλασμα (bimetallic element, bimetallic strip), διμεταλλικό (bimetallic strip, bimetallism). (various references)

   

Italian

  

bimetallo (clad material, composite material), materiale placcato (clad material, composite material), materiale composito (clad material, composite material), elemento bimetallico (bimetallic element, bimetallic strip). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

バイフュウエル車 (Bible, bi-polar, bi-polar device, dual-fuel vehicle, supporting actor, vibration, vibrator). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

バイメタル . (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

imetalbay

   

Portuguese

  

bimetal (bimetallic strip, bimetallism, clad material, composite material), bimetálico (bimetallic, bimetallic element, bimetallic strip), material compósito (clad material, composite material). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

bimetal (bimetallic strip, bimetallism, clad material, composite material), tira bimetálica (bimetallic element, bimetallic strip), metal plaqueado (clad material, composite material), cinta bimetálica (bimetallic element, bimetallic strip), aleación bimetálica (bimetallic strip, bimetallism). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

bimetallelement (bimetallic element, bimetallic strip). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

lưỡng kim (bimetallic). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Bimetal

Derivations

Words beginning with "bimetal": bimetallic, bimetallics, bimetallism, bimetallisms, bimetallist, bimetallistic, bimetallists, bimetals. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Bimetal" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: beneteau, Benzeval, bimbette, bimedia, Bintulu. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Bimetal

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: limbate, timbale.

Words within the letters "a-b-e-i-l-m-t"

-1 letter: albeit, albite, lambie, timbal.

-2 letters: ambit, amble, blame, blate, bleat, blite, email, limba, maile, metal, table, telia.

-3 letters: abet, able, alit, alme, amie, bail, bait, bale, balm, bate, beam, beat, belt, bema, beta, bile, bima, bite, blae, blam, blat, blet, emit, iamb, ilea, item, lamb, lame, late, lati, lima, limb, lime, lite, mabe.

 Words containing the letters "a-b-e-i-l-m-t"
 

+1 letter: bailment, balmiest, bimetals, imitable, lambiest, timbales.

 

+2 letters: bailments, bedlamite, estimable, estimably, immutable, imputable, limitable, marbliest, metabolic, sublimate, timetable, wambliest.

 

+3 letters: ambivalent, automobile, bedlamites, bimetallic, brambliest, compatible, embattling, emblematic, habiliment, impartible, importable, inimitable, metabolism, metabolite, metabolize, mistakable, remittable, sublimated, sublimates, terminable, terminably, timberland, timetables, umbilicate.

 

+4 letters: abolishment, amblygonite, amenability, amortizable, amphibolite, automobiled, automobiles, bimetallics, bimetallism, bimetallist, biomaterial, biometrical, blastematic, combatively, committable, compactible, compatibles, disablement, emblematize, habiliments, illimitable, immitigable, implantable, indomitable, inestimable, inestimably, mandibulate, meltability, mentionable, meroblastic, metabolisms, metabolites, metabolized, metabolizes, multibarrel, multibladed, problematic, rambouillet, subterminal, timberlands, tolbutamide, umbilicated.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Bimetal


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 69 6D 65 74 61 6C

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-...    ..    --    .    -    .-    .-..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01101001 01101101 01100101 01110100 01100001 01101100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#105 &#109 &#101 &#116 &#97 &#108

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0069 006D 0065 0074 0061 006C

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

36757971866778

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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