oxyacetylene
noun, adjective
oxyacetylene is a noun meaning “A mixture of oxygen and acetylene, which burns at a high temperature and is used for cutting and welding metals” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled O-X-Y-A-C-E-T-Y-L-E-N-E, and it appears about once in every 46 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does oxyacetylene mean?
noun
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A mixture of oxygen and acetylene, which burns at a high temperature and is used for cutting and welding metals.
adjective
- 1
Using this mixture.
an oxyacetylene torch
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is oxyacetylene?
Oxyacetylene appears about once in every 46 million words in written English, the 209,386th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you abbreviate oxyacetylene?
Wiktionary records one abbreviation of oxyacetylene: oxy.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Where does oxyacetylene come from?
From oxy- + acetylene.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).