solder
Any of various easily melted alloys, commonly of tin and lead, that are used to mend, coat, or join metal objects, usually small.
Other meanings
Circumstances or emotions that strongly bond things or persons together, by analogy to solder that joins metals.
A kind of
- alloy
Kinds of solder
- hard solder
- silver solder
- soft solder
Related words
- solderess
- solderless
- gold solder
- solder sucker
- solder bump
- solder gobbler
- solder mask
- solder resist
- solder stop
Word history
From Latin "solidō".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “solder” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; 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.