continuous casting

American  

noun

Metallurgy.

1. a technique of casting ingots, bars, etc., in which the metal is poured into an open-ended mold, being withdrawn as it solidifies so that the solid portion of the piece retains the fluid portion within the mold.

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Other Word Forms

• continuous caster noun

Example Sentences

Our semi-attempts, along with continuous casting from the other fishermen, had netted a grand total of one fish, so we climbed back in the boat and continued upriver.

From New York Times • May 6, 2013

My former company, Rokop Corporation, which supplied continuous casting machines to steelmakers, owned a couple of airplanes.

From Inc • Dec. 8, 2011

Steel is building three oxygen furnaces and a continuous casting line at Gary and a strip mill at South Chicago capable of turning out enough tin cans to supply almost all the nation's needs.

From Time Magazine Archive

Steel the world leader by 1986 in continuous casting, the technology that allows the making of semifinished products without the intervening ingot stage.

From Time Magazine Archive

While foreign producers have shifted over increasingly to highly efficient "continuous casting" techniques for steelmaking, U.S. firms still rely heavily on much more costly and labor-intensive processes.

From Time Magazine Archive