Dictionary.com Thesaurus.com

bimetal

American

[bahy-met-l] / baɪˈmɛt l /

noun

a material made by the bonding of two sheets or strips of different metals, each metal having a different coefficient of thermal expansion.

adjective

bimetallic.

Etymology

Origin of bimetal

1920–25; bi- ¹ + metal, or as back formation from bimetallic

Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.