sheet metal

See also: sheet-metal

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Etymology

From sheet +‎ metal.

Noun

sheet metal (countable and uncountable, plural sheet metals)

  1. Metal worked into a thin, flat sheet, used widely as construction material and raw material for a multitude of industrial products. It is thicker than foil and thinner than plate.
    • 2025 April 8, Hanna Park, “A timeline of the legal battle over the mistaken deportation of a Maryland father to El Salvador”, in CNN‎[1]:
      Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a sheet metal worker and father of three, was deported last month after the Trump administration admitted to an “administrative error.”

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