METALLIDE Definition & Meaning

metallide

[ met-l-ahyd ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

metallided, metalliding.

to provide (a metal or alloy) with a diffused coating of a metal or metalloid by electrolysis at high temperature in order to impart a particular surface property to the base metal.

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1965–70; metall- + -ide ( def ); perhaps originally a noun, variant of metalloid

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