How to pronounce smelter
American English pronunciation
SMEL-tur
- IPA
- /ˈsmɛltɚ/
- Syllables
- SMEL · tur (2 syllables, stress on the 1st)
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What smelter means
A factory that heats rock to melt the metal out of it
In a sentence: Trucks carried rock from the mine to the smelter, where it was turned into shiny copper.
Where it comes from: It's smelt, to melt metal out of rock, plus -er. Smelt comes from an old Dutch or German word meaning to melt.
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