flash butt welding

1. 1.

   butt welding by creating an electric arc between the two pieces which melts and joins them; used for joining segments of metal pipe

   Synonymsflash welding

   Broaderbutt welding

Questions about flash butt welding

What does flash butt welding mean?

flash butt welding means "butt welding by creating an electric arc between the two pieces which melts and joins them; used for joining segments of metal pipe".

What is another word for flash butt welding?

Close synonyms include flash welding. 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 flash butt welding a common word?

flash butt welding 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.