bimetallic en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /baɪmɪˈtælɪk/
Etymology
From French bimétallique. Equivalent to bi- + metallic.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Pertaining to the use of gold and silver to create legal currency.
We well suppose that a Minister needs information as to a point which involves the Navy, India, Canada and the bimetallic question.
1908, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans, Norton, published 2005, page 1302:
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(not-comparable) More generally, consisting of two metals.
"We have a special coupler that joins them together to prevent the bi-metallic corrosion you'd get if the stainless steel and the galvanised steel touched each other. […]"
2024 May 29, Nick Brodrick, “Between a rock and a wet place...”, in RAIL, number 1010, page 43: