0 a chemical element, such as iron or gold, or a mixture of such elements, such as steel, that is generally hard and strong, and through which electricity and heat can travel:
1 a generally hard and shiny chemical element, such as iron or gold, or a mixture of such elements, such as steel, which usually allows electricity and heat to travel through it
The explosion sent pieces of metal and glass hurtling through the air.
All that remains of yesterday's car crash is a pile of mangled metal.
As the hot metal passed between the huge rollers it was pressed into thin sheets.
The mechanical stresses occur as a result of thermal expansion of the metal at the metal-glass boundary.
The methods of assaying were supposed to determine the quantity of a given metal in an ore or alloy with one or more other metals.
A problem solving architecture for virtual prototyping in metal to polymer composite redesign.