high-speed steel

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   an alloy steel that remains hard at a red heat; used to make metal-cutting tools

   Synonymshot-work steel

   Broadertool steel

Questions about high-speed steel

What does high-speed steel mean?

high-speed steel means "an alloy steel that remains hard at a red heat; used to make metal-cutting tools".

What is another word for high-speed steel?

Close synonyms include hot-work 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 high-speed steel a common word?

high-speed 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.