high-strength brass

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   a brass with from 1-4% manganese to harden it

   Synonymsmanganese bronze

   Broaderalpha-beta brass

Questions about high-strength brass

What does high-strength brass mean?

high-strength brass means "a brass with from 1-4% manganese to harden it".

What is another word for high-strength brass?

Close synonyms include manganese bronze. 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-strength brass a common word?

high-strength 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.