soft-cast steel

1. 1.

   steel with less than 0.15% carbon

   Synonymsmild steellow-carbon steel

   Broadersteel

Questions about soft-cast steel

What does soft-cast steel mean?

soft-cast steel means "steel with less than 0.15% carbon".

What is another word for soft-cast steel?

Close synonyms include mild steel, low-carbon 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 soft-cast steel a common word?

soft-cast 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.