"Bessemer process" meaning in English

See Bessemer process in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: Bessemer processes [plural]
Etymology: Named after its inventor, the Englishman Henry Bessemer, who took out a patent on the process in 1856. Head templates: {{en-noun}} Bessemer process (plural Bessemer processes)
  1. (metallurgy, historical) The first inexpensive industrial process for the mass production of steel, based on blowing air through molten pig iron to remove impurities by oxidation. Tags: historical Categories (topical): Metallurgy Derived forms: bessemerize, bessemerization

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for Bessemer process meaning in English (2.0kB)

{
  "etymology_text": "Named after its inventor, the Englishman Henry Bessemer, who took out a patent on the process in 1856.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Bessemer processes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Bessemer process (plural Bessemer processes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with language name categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Metallurgy",
          "orig": "en:Metallurgy",
          "parents": [
            "Metals",
            "Technology",
            "Matter",
            "All topics",
            "Chemistry",
            "Nature",
            "Fundamental",
            "Sciences"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "bessemerize"
        },
        {
          "word": "bessemerization"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The first inexpensive industrial process for the mass production of steel, based on blowing air through molten pig iron to remove impurities by oxidation."
      ],
      "id": "en-Bessemer_process-en-noun-TXPtf~D7",
      "links": [
        [
          "metallurgy",
          "metallurgy"
        ],
        [
          "inexpensive",
          "inexpensive"
        ],
        [
          "industrial",
          "industrial"
        ],
        [
          "process",
          "process"
        ],
        [
          "mass",
          "mass"
        ],
        [
          "production",
          "production"
        ],
        [
          "steel",
          "steel"
        ],
        [
          "air",
          "air"
        ],
        [
          "molten",
          "molten"
        ],
        [
          "pig iron",
          "pig iron"
        ],
        [
          "oxidation",
          "oxidation"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(metallurgy, historical) The first inexpensive industrial process for the mass production of steel, based on blowing air through molten pig iron to remove impurities by oxidation."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "engineering",
        "metallurgy",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Bessemer process"
}
{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "bessemerize"
    },
    {
      "word": "bessemerization"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Named after its inventor, the Englishman Henry Bessemer, who took out a patent on the process in 1856.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Bessemer processes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Bessemer process (plural Bessemer processes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
        "English eponyms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with historical senses",
        "English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys",
        "en:Metallurgy"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The first inexpensive industrial process for the mass production of steel, based on blowing air through molten pig iron to remove impurities by oxidation."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "metallurgy",
          "metallurgy"
        ],
        [
          "inexpensive",
          "inexpensive"
        ],
        [
          "industrial",
          "industrial"
        ],
        [
          "process",
          "process"
        ],
        [
          "mass",
          "mass"
        ],
        [
          "production",
          "production"
        ],
        [
          "steel",
          "steel"
        ],
        [
          "air",
          "air"
        ],
        [
          "molten",
          "molten"
        ],
        [
          "pig iron",
          "pig iron"
        ],
        [
          "oxidation",
          "oxidation"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(metallurgy, historical) The first inexpensive industrial process for the mass production of steel, based on blowing air through molten pig iron to remove impurities by oxidation."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "historical"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "engineering",
        "metallurgy",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Bessemer process"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-05 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.