Made of or relating to two different metals bonded together, especially for use in thermostats or scientific instruments.
From 'bimetal' with the standard adjectival suffix '-ic.' The term became standard in English engineering and scientific literature in the 19th and 20th centuries.
The bimetallic strip is one of humanity's simplest and most reliable inventions—it's been keeping thermostats working reliably since the 1800s without batteries or electricity, just pure physics.
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