Meanings
verb
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of smelt
nounsmelting (plural smeltings)
plural smeltings
- engineeringThe process of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore.
Buried within the Mediterranean littoral are some seventy to ninety million tons of slag from ancient smelting, about a third of it concentrated in Iberia. This ceaseless industrial fueling caused the deforestation of an estimated fifty to seventy million acres of woodlands.
2006, Edwin Black, chapter 2, in Internal Combustion
Translations
Ancient Greek χώνευσις
- χώνευσις (khṓneusis)process of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore
Arabic صَهْر
- صَهْر (ṣahr)process of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore
Catalan fosa
- fosaprocess of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore
Chinese Mandarin 冶煉 /冶炼, 熔煉 /熔炼
- 冶煉 /冶炼 (yěliàn)process of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore
- 熔煉 /熔炼 (róngliàn)process of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore
Czech tavení, tavba
- taveníprocess of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore
- tavbaprocess of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore
Dutch wegsmelten, smelten
- wegsmeltenprocess of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore
- smeltenprocess of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore
Finnish pelkistyssulatus, sulatus
- pelkistyssulatusprocess of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore
- sulatusprocess of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore
French fonte, fonderie
- fonteprocess of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore
- fonderieprocess of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore
German Schmelzen
- Schmelzenprocess of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore
Hebrew הִתּוּךְ, זִקּוּק יָבֵשׁ
- הִתּוּךְ (hitúkh)process of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore
- זִקּוּק יָבֵשׁprocess of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore
Japanese 製錬
- 製錬 (seiren)process of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore
Korean 제련
- 제련 (jeryeon)process of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore
Māori whakarewa
- whakarewaprocess of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore
Portuguese fundição
- fundiçãoprocess of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore
Russian пла́вка
- пла́вка (plávka)process of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore
Spanish fundición, copelación
- fundiciónprocess of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore
- copelaciónprocess of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore
Swedish smältning
- smältningprocess of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore
Tagalog magluto
- maglutoprocess of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore
Turkish kal
- kalprocess of melting or fusion, especially to extract a metal from its ore
Cite this entry
APA
smelting. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/smelting
MLA
“smelting.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/smelting. Accessed November 4, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “smelting,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/smelting.
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