austenitic manganese steel

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   a steel with a relatively large component (10-14%) of manganese; highly resistant to wear and shock

   Synonymsmanganese steel

   Broaderalloy steel

Questions about austenitic manganese steel

What does austenitic manganese steel mean?

austenitic manganese steel means "a steel with a relatively large component (10-14%) of manganese; highly resistant to wear and shock".

What is another word for austenitic manganese steel?

Close synonyms include manganese steel. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is austenitic manganese steel a common word?

austenitic manganese steel 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.