molten
adjUK /ˈmɒltən/ · US /ˈmoʊltən/
Etymology From Middle English molten, from Old English molten, ġemolten (“melted, molten”), from Proto-Germanic *multanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *meltaną (“to melt”). Cognate with Scots moltin, Swedish multen.
1
Melted, especially due to great heat
- molten metal, wax, rock
- Earth is surrounded by a magnetosphere — an invisible bubble of magnetism generated by the powerful churning of molten metals at Earth’s core.2023 December 27, Mindy Weisberger, “Ancient bricks baked when Nebuchadnezzar II was king absorbed a power surge in Earth’s magnetic field”, in CNN:
2
Made from a melted substance.
3
Glowing red-hot.
- Derived terms
- molten chocolate cake, molten lava cake, moltenly, molten plastic, nonmolten, premolten, remolten, semimolten, unmolten