Usually means: Less valuable, non-precious metallic elements.
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  1. base metal: Merriam-Webster
  2. base metal: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. base metal: Collins English Dictionary
  4. base metal: Vocabulary.com
  5. base-metal, base metal: Wordnik
  6. base metal: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. base-metal, base metal: Wiktionary
  8. base metal: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Base metal, base metal: Dictionary.com
  10. Base metal: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. base metal: FreeDictionary.org
  12. base metal: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. base metal: TheFreeDictionary.com
  14. base metal: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. base metal: Encyclopedia

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  2. Base metal: Medical dictionary

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  2. Base metal: Construction deterioration & building durability glossary
  3. BASE METAL: Power Engineering

Definitions from Wiktionary (base metal)

noun:  (electrochemistry) Any metal at the lower end of the electrochemical series that oxidizes readily.
noun:  (metallurgy) The metal to be welded (rather than that used to weld).
noun:  A common or inexpensive metal.
noun:  (chiefly alchemy) one that was hoped to be transmuted into a precious metal.

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