Usually means: Metals bonded, expand differently, bend.
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  1. bimetallic strips: Collins English Dictionary
  2. bimetallic strips: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  3. bimetallic strips: TheFreeDictionary.com

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(Note: See bimetallic_strip as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (bimetallic strip)

noun:  A thin strip made from a sandwich of two different metals, the metals having different rates of expansion with temperature, so that an increase in temperature causes the strip to bend one way, and a decrease causes it to bend the other; used in various devices such as thermostats.
▸ Also see bimetallic_strip


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