Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of or using a mixture of acetylene and oxygen.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Noting the mixture of oxygen and acetylene.

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

  • adjective Of or pertaining to a mixture of oxygen and actylene.

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

  • noun A mixture of oxygen and acetylene; burns at a high temperature and is used for cutting and welding metals.
  • adjective Using this mixture e.g. an oxyacetylene torch

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

  • noun a mixture of oxygen and acetylene; used to create high temperatures for cutting or welding metals

Etymologies

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oxy- +‎ acetylene

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Examples

  • Blacksmiths today might also utilize oxyacetylene which is comparable to a blowtorch for a more precise heating.

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  • Gallery director Carl Goines convinced his father and fellow artists Jacob Martinez and Eric Froh to gather supplies to extricate the painting: an oxyacetylene torch, a Bobcat mini-tractor, a pickup truck and a gas-powered masonry saw with a new $400 blade.

    If You Take Street Art Off the Street, Is It Still Art? Matthew Dolan 2011

  • He gives Bass Mantra a steel wool brush up, creating a high-tensile, claustrophobic track of inexorable build via oxyacetylene sputter and metallic rattle.

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  • When he fails, even with an oxyacetylene torch and quartz test tubes, to replicate the 17th-century alchemist Hennig Brand's breakthrough in extracting glowing phosphorus from his own urine, Mr. Aldersey-Williams concludes that "whatever his delusions, Brand was clearly a formidable experimental scientist."

    Periodic Table Talk Mike Jay 2011

  • Most 3rd world skilled builders/labourers have the most primitive and basic hand tools only. and arc/tig/mig or oxyacetylene would be beyond their purchasing power.

    PREFAB FRIDAY: Container House by Leger Wanaselja | Inhabitat 2008

  • The solution was to use oxyacetylene torches to cut the heavy equipment into numbered parts and then weld them back together in Berlin, ready to roll.

    Daring Young Men RICHARD REEVES 2010

  • He pulled over the oxyacetylene torch, fired up the thirty-two-hundred-degree-Celsius flame, and set to work.

    The Thieves of Darkness Richard Doetsch 2010

  • He pulled over the oxyacetylene torch, fired up the thirty-two-hundred-degree-Celsius flame, and set to work.

    The Thieves of Darkness Richard Doetsch 2010

  • He pulled over the oxyacetylene torch, fired up the thirty-two-hundred-degree-Celsius flame, and set to work.

    The Thieves of Darkness Richard Doetsch 2010

  • Scotty Phillips has described how Crowe came at him with an oxyacetylene torch before the guitarist's incendiary solo on "You and Your Perfect Life."

    Nick Hornby: Juliet, Naked: An Excerpt 2009

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