MEANING
A compound of carbon with another element, especially a hard material used in tools or industrial components.
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- tungsten carbide
- carbide tool
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The carbide tool cut through the alloy.
They replaced the worn tungsten carbide insert.
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Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Singular carbide; plural carbides. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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