sheet metal

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   sheet of metal formed into a thin plate

   Broadersheet

   Narrowercorrugated ironflashingfoiltin plate

Questions about sheet metal

What does sheet metal mean?

sheet metal means "sheet of metal formed into a thin plate".

Is sheet metal a common word?

sheet metal 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.