Melt can refer to:
- Melting, in physics, the process of heating a solid substance to a liquid
- Melt (telecoms), Metallic Line Test
- Melt (manufacturing), the semi-liquid material used in steelmaking and glassblowing
- Melt (geology), magma
- Melt inclusions, a feature of igneous rock
- Melt sandwich or cheese melt, a grilled sandwich
- A shortened form of meltdown, a whitewater kayaking technique
- A shortened form of meltwater, water released from the thawing of snow and ice
Famous quotes containing the word melt:
“Welcome the comming of the longd-for May.
Now all things smile; onely my Love doth lowre;
Nor hath the scalding noon-day sunne the power
To melt that marble yce, which still doth hold
Her heart congeald, and makes her pittie cold.”
—Thomas Carew (15891639)
“I wish the opera was every night. It is, of all entertainments, the sweetest and most delightful. Some of the songs seemed to melt my very soul.”
—Frances Burney (17521840)
“O that I were a mockery king of snow,
Standing before the sun of Bolingbroke,
To melt myself away in water drops!”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
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