different between foundry vs smelter

foundry

English

Alternative forms

  • foundery (dated)

Etymology

From French fonderie.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: foun'dr?, IPA(key): /fa?nd?i/
  • Rhymes: -a?nd?i

Noun

foundry (countable and uncountable, plural foundries)

  1. A facility that melts metals in special furnaces and pours the molten metal into molds to make products. Foundries are usually specified according to the type of metal dealt with: iron foundry, brass foundry, etc.
  2. The act, process, or art of casting metals; founding.
  3. A semiconductor fabrication plant in the microelectronics industry.

Synonyms

  • (semiconductor fabrication plant): fab

Derived terms

  • type foundry

Translations

Further reading

  • foundry on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • foundry (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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smelter

English

Etymology

smelt +? -er

Noun

smelter (plural smelters)

  1. A person employed to do smelting.
    He works as a smelter.
  2. A machine used to smelt metal.
    Throw the scrap in the smelter so we can melt it down and reuse it.
  3. A place where smelting is done.
    We'll take the scrap to the smelter and get some money for it.

Translations

Anagrams

  • melters, remelts, resmelt

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

smelter

  1. present tense of smelte

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

smelter

  1. present of smelta

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