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:
“This pond never breaks up so soon as the others in this neighborhood, on account both of its greater depth and its having no stream passing through it to melt or wear away the ice.... It indicates better than any water hereabouts the absolute progress of the season, being least affected by transient changes of temperature. A severe cold of a few days’ duration in March may very much retard the opening of the former ponds, while the temperature of Walden increases almost uninterruptedly.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“O that I were a mockery king of snow,
Standing before the sun of Bolingbroke,
To melt myself away in water drops!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“She looked as though butter wouldn’t melt in her mouth—or anywhere else.”
—Elsa Lanchester (1902–1986)