OPEN-HEARTH

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (adjective) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to or produced by the open-hearth process

Example:

open-hearth steel

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Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

open-hearth furnace (a furnace for making steel in which the steel is placed on a shallow hearth and flames of burning gas and hot air play over it)

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