(chemistry) An element, such as silicon or germanium, intermediate in properties between that of a metal and a nonmetal; especially one that exhibits the external characteristics of a metal, but behaves chemically more as a nonmetal.

(not comparable) Of or relating to the metalloids. / (informal) Characteristic of the metal music genre.

(linguistics, translation studies, critical theory) Any language or vocabulary of specialized terms used to describe or analyze a language or linguistic process

(metallurgy) Of or relating to metallurgy, the study of metals and their properties.

(rhetoric) A rhetorical device whereby one word is metonymically substituted for another word which is itself a metonym; more broadly, a metaphor consisting of a series of embedded metonyms or rhetorical substitutions.

(dated) A person who works in metal (the type of material). / A person skilled in metallurgy.

Objects made of metal. / The act of shaping metal, metalworking.

A person who shapes metal.

The art and craft of shaping metal.

plural of metalanguage