alloy

Definition

A metal that is a combination of two or more elements, at least one of which is a metal, a base metal.

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French alloy, aloy, from Old French aloi, from aloiier, from Latin alligō.

Example Sentences

• "gold without alloy"
• "Many of these coins are preserved at the British Museum, in London, and at the Ashmolean Museum, in Oxford, and are all of pure gold, without alloy, and in a good state of preservation. Boadicea, Queen of the Iceni, is also said to have[…]"
• "Metrodorus said that in sadnesse there is some aloy of pleasure."