"Baily’s metal" meaning in Anglais

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    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Locutions nominales en anglais",
      "parents": [],
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    },
    {
      "kind": "other",
      "name": "Anglais",
      "orig": "anglais",
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      "source": "w"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Anglais",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "pos_title": "Locution nominale",
  "related": [
    {
      "sense": "erronément",
      "word": "Bailey’s metal"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Lexique en anglais de la métallurgie",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "Hamilton L. Smith, éditeur, The Annals of Science, vol. II, no. 4 (avril), Harris & Fairbanks, Cleveland (OH), 1854, p. 92",
          "text": "It will be remembered that the destruction of the Houses of Parliament by fire in 1834 proved fatal to the Standard Yard and Pound. […] The standard-yard measure is defined by the interval between two lines upon a bar of gun-metal. […] On the upper surface of the bar, the following inscription is engraved:\nCopper, - - - - - 16 oz.\nTin, - - - - - 2½\nZinc, - - - - - 1\nMr. Baily’s metal.\nThe standard yard at 62°.10 Fahrenheit, cast in 1845. Troughton & Simms, London.\nIt is necessary to observe that, although the bar was cast so long ago as 1845, the standard yard has been completed only very lately."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Métal de Baily : alliage de 16 parties de cuivre pour 2,5 parties d’étain et une partie de zinc, qui possède un coefficient d’expansion thermique très faible et une excellente rigidité."
      ],
      "id": "fr-Baily’s_metal-en-noun-B~1sdq3g",
      "topics": [
        "metallurgy"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Baily’s metal"
}

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    "Locutions nominales en anglais",
    "anglais"
  ],
  "lang": "Anglais",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "pos_title": "Locution nominale",
  "related": [
    {
      "sense": "erronément",
      "word": "Bailey’s metal"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Lexique en anglais de la métallurgie"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "Hamilton L. Smith, éditeur, The Annals of Science, vol. II, no. 4 (avril), Harris & Fairbanks, Cleveland (OH), 1854, p. 92",
          "text": "It will be remembered that the destruction of the Houses of Parliament by fire in 1834 proved fatal to the Standard Yard and Pound. […] The standard-yard measure is defined by the interval between two lines upon a bar of gun-metal. […] On the upper surface of the bar, the following inscription is engraved:\nCopper, - - - - - 16 oz.\nTin, - - - - - 2½\nZinc, - - - - - 1\nMr. Baily’s metal.\nThe standard yard at 62°.10 Fahrenheit, cast in 1845. Troughton & Simms, London.\nIt is necessary to observe that, although the bar was cast so long ago as 1845, the standard yard has been completed only very lately."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Métal de Baily : alliage de 16 parties de cuivre pour 2,5 parties d’étain et une partie de zinc, qui possède un coefficient d’expansion thermique très faible et une excellente rigidité."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "metallurgy"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Baily’s metal"
}