spot-weld

Questions about spot-weld

What does spot-weld mean?

spot-weld means "each of the welds made by welding at a separate point". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in spot-weld?

spot-weld has 2 syllables and divides as spo-t-weld under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for spot-weld?

Close synonyms include spot weld, spotweld. 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 spot-weld a common word?

spot-weld 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.