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soldering

soldering

7 5.4
Joining metal parts by melting a soft metal to make a strong connection
  • noun
  • /ˈsɒdərɪŋ/
  • Specialized
translation icon : soldadura
  • With practice, she became proficient at soldering wires together.
  • soldering iron
  • soldering process

We've seen dozens, if not hundreds of different soldering stands that you can buy.

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Examples

  • Let's get into soldering the tiny pieces of LED strip and match the cloud shape as best as we can.

  • And please excuse my poor soldering technique.

  • I need a soldering station.

  • Do you have a soldering iron?

  • It's hard and tedious, but it would make the final soldering to the chip easier.

    Blog text (30)
  • But I also do fairly simple constructions, soldering and cutting and stuff with silver sheet and wire.

  • According to the production manager, the main recruiting criteria for working at Hearing Solutions were 'soldering skills, good hand skills, and good eyesight.'

    Academic text (2014)
  • As men fight at the front, women step in and take over what were previously unthinkable jobs for a woman, like soldering, construction, trucking.

  • One fall, I was putting together a transistor radio, using a soldering iron in my dorm room.

    Academic text (1993)
  • The exercise proved valuable in developing soldering skills and demonstrating the cause and effect of light interacting with an electronic component.

    Academic text (2013)

Synonyms

bonding
vssoldering
9 3.0

Joining two things so they stay firmly together

is a specific process using melted metal filler to join metal objects

Compounds

soldering iron
  • Specialized
2 4.7

A tool with a hot metal tip that melts solder to join metal parts

soldering flux
  • Specialized
8.3

A paste or liquid used to clean metal so two parts join when heated

How Strong

welding
  • Specialized
23 3.7
to braze
  • Specialized
1 9.1
soldering
  • Specialized
7 5.4
tacking
  • Specialized
7.0

Surface Forms

soldering singular
solderings plural

Morphology

soldering = solder (transparent) = solder + ing

The word is a regular noun formed from the verb 'solder' with the suffix '-ing', so the meaning is directly recoverable from the base verb.

Etymology

The word soldering comes from the old Latin verb solidare, which means 'to make solid', and it shares the same root as the English word solid. So soldering is like making metal parts 'solid' together by melting a softer metal called solder to join them.