Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

glass furnace

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.60 in modern English

Syllables: glass -fur-nace
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

n

a furnace for melting large batches of glass.

Example Sentences

"A typical glass furnace holds hundreds of tonnes of molten glass, and so it is simply not practical to shut it down every night, or in fact in any period short of a month."

Questions

What does glass furnace mean?: a furnace for melting large batches of glass.

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