metal
Chemical elements or alloys, their ores, and the mines where their ores come from.
Other meanings
Any of a number of chemical elements in the periodic table that form a metallic bond with other metal atoms; generally shiny, somewhat malleable and hard, often a conductor of heat and electricity.
Any material with similar physical properties as those chemical elements, especially as a combination of several of them, such as an alloy.
A kind of
- chemical element
Kinds of metal
- heavy metal
- base metal
- noble metal
- aluminum
- americium
- antimony
- barium
- beryllium
Example sentences
Word history
From Ancient Greek "μέταλλον" (mine, quarry, metal).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “metal” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.