Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An apparatus for smelting.
- n. An establishment for smelting.
- n. One who is engaged in the smelting industry.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who is engaged in smelting, or who works in an establishment where ores are smelted.
- n. In the Cordilleran region, smelting-works.
Wiktionary
- n. One who or that which smelts:
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who, or that which, smelts.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an industrial plant for smelting
Examples
“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.”
The Wall Street Journal: India Court Stays Vedanta Unit's Plant Closure
“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.”
The Wall Street Journal: India Court Stays Vedanta Unit's Plant Closure
“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.”
“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.”
“The smelter is the biggest private investment in the country since Mozambique achieved its independence from Portugal in 1975.”
“Galland said the smelter was a major event in the development of economic and commercial ties between France and South Africa.”
“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.”
“Add in the fact that a smelter is a tough place in which to work - it's exceptionally hot and far from a cleanroom environment - and tempers are bound to flare.”
“In 1997, Peru's environmental authority, CONAM, concluded that the smelter was the source of”
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