Definitions

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

  • noun An apparatus for smelting.
  • noun An establishment for smelting.
  • noun One who is engaged in the smelting industry.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who is engaged in smelting, or who works in an establishment where ores are smelted.
  • noun In the Cordilleran region, smelting-works.

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

  • noun One who, or that which, smelts.

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

  • noun One who or that which smelts:

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

  • noun an industrial plant for smelting

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word smelter.

Examples

  • In the case of the Tuticorin smelter, news agency Press Trust of India said the high court ordered closure of the plant as it was within 25 kilometers of an ecologically fragile area and as the company failed to develop a green belt with a width of 250 meters around the plant.

    India Court Stays Vedanta Unit's Plant Closure Prasenjit Bhattacharya 2010

  • Iyer Sundar Raj, a spokesman for the Tuticorin smelter, told Dow Jones Newswires that since smelting is a process-based industry, shutting down of operations will take time.

    India Court Stays Vedanta Unit's Plant Closure Prasenjit Bhattacharya 2010

  • Asarco, of Tucson, Ariz., hasn't operated the smelter, which is more than 100 years old, since 2001, but has wrangled with federal and state regulators about cleaning up of the site for several years.

    Asarco Sets Cleanup Pact 2008

  • The air permit battle is just the latest chapter in the long, controversial history of the Asarco smelter, which is currently owned by a Mexican company.

    Smokestack Injustice? Toxic Texas Smelter May Reopen 2008

  • The smelter is the biggest private investment in the country since Mozambique achieved its independence from Portugal in 1975.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

  • Galland said the smelter was a major event in the development of economic and commercial ties between France and South Africa.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • It was set to arrive in Japan this week, where the concentrate would go to Mitsubishi's Onahama smelter, which is located in the Fukushima prefecture and was shuttered after the earthquake and tsunami.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed David Ebner 2011

  • Planned maintenance activities in the quarter included a 32 day shutdown of the KIVCET lead smelter, which is scheduled every three years, and a 14 day shutdown of one of the two zinc roasters.

    unknown title 2011

  • It was set to arrive in Japan this week, where the concentrate would go to Mitsubishi's Onahama smelter, which is located in the Fukushima prefecture and was shuttered after the earthquake and tsunami.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed David Ebner 2011

  • It was set to arrive in Japan this week, where the concentrate would go to Mitsubishi's Onahama smelter, which is located in the Fukushima prefecture and was shuttered after the earthquake and tsunami.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed David Ebner 2011

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.