alpha brass

1. 1.

   an alloy of brass and zinc; used mainly for cold working

   Broaderbrass

Questions about alpha brass

What does alpha brass mean?

alpha brass means "an alloy of brass and zinc; used mainly for cold working".

Is alpha brass a common word?

alpha brass is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.