elinvar

1. 1.

   Elinvar is a trademark for a kind of steel used for watch springs because its elasticity is constant over a wide range of temperatures

   Synonymschrome-nickel steel

   Broaderalloy steel

   trademark

Other forms of elinvar

plural

elinvars·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about elinvar

What does elinvar mean?

elinvar means "Elinvar is a trademark for a kind of steel used for watch springs because its elasticity is constant over a wide range of temperatures".

How many syllables are in elinvar?

elinvar has 3 syllables: e-lin-var. The stress falls on "e".

What is another word for elinvar?

Close synonyms include chrome-nickel 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 elinvar a common word?

elinvar is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.