Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who is versed in the science of metallurgy; one who scientifically studies the operations of the smelter.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who works in metals, or prepares them for use; one who is skilled in metallurgy.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun dated A person who works in metal
  • noun A person skilled in metallurgy

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun an engineer trained in the extraction and refining and alloying and fabrication of metals

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Examples

  • There was a metallurgist from the National Transportation and Safety Board, Michael L. Marx, who was a great resource for us because metallurgical failures were involved in the burn-through of the Shuttle’s solid rocket booster.

    First Man James R. Hansen 2005

  • There was a metallurgist from the National Transportation and Safety Board, Michael L. Marx, who was a great resource for us because metallurgical failures were involved in the burn-through of the Shuttle’s solid rocket booster.

    First Man James R. Hansen 2005

  • There was a metallurgist from the National Transportation and Safety Board, Michael L. Marx, who was a great resource for us because metallurgical failures were involved in the burn-through of the Shuttle’s solid rocket booster.

    First Man James R. Hansen 2005

  • There was a metallurgist from the National Transportation and Safety Board, Michael L. Marx, who was a great resource for us because metallurgical failures were involved in the burn-through of the Shuttle’s solid rocket booster.

    First Man James R. Hansen 2005

  • My father is an engineer who goes to Japan once a month, my mother is a metallurgist, and I studied mathematics and science at UC Berkeley.

    Jay Weston: Stella Rossa Pizza -- The Best in L.A., Perhaps the World Jay Weston 2011

  • My father is an engineer who goes to Japan once a month, my mother is a metallurgist, and I studied mathematics and science at UC Berkeley.

    Jay Weston: Stella Rossa Pizza -- The Best in L.A., Perhaps the World Jay Weston 2011

  • A Ukrainian metallurgist says he's known about Trinity since childhood.

    James M. Clash: New Mexico's (Atomic) Ground Zero James M. Clash 2010

  • My father is an engineer who goes to Japan once a month, my mother is a metallurgist, and I studied mathematics and science at UC Berkeley.

    Jay Weston: Stella Rossa Pizza -- The Best in L.A., Perhaps the World Jay Weston 2011

  • After obtaining his Ph.D. in Belgium in 1972, Khan, a metallurgist by training, traveled to Holland, where he secured a job in a company that made centrifuges suitable to enrich uranium for a nuclear device.

    The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

  • My father is an engineer who goes to Japan once a month, my mother is a metallurgist, and I studied mathematics and science at UC Berkeley.

    Jay Weston: Stella Rossa Pizza -- The Best in L.A., Perhaps the World Jay Weston 2011

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