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Driving Iron: An alternate name for a number 1 iron (neither the term nor the club is very commonly used any longer)

Iron Glove: Sloppy fielding; prone to errors.

Iron Formation: A layered deposit of chemical sedimentary rocks containing at least 15 percent (by weight) iron in the form of sulfide, oxide, hydroxide, or carbonate minerals.

Iron Ore: A chemical sedimentary rock that forms when iron and oxygen (and sometimes other substances) combine in solution and deposit as a sediment. Hematite is the most common sedimentary iron ore m . . . View Full Definition

Iron-Carbon Phase Diagram: A graphical means of identifying different structures of steel and percentages of carbon occurring in steel at various temperatures.

Long Iron: The longer-shafted, steeper-faced, (and hopefully) longer distance irons, generally numbers 1 through 4

Irony: Stating something by saying another quite different thing, sometimes its opposite. An example is sir thomas wyatt's 'and i have leave to go, of her goodness' from his 'they flee from me.'

Iron Compass: Railroad tracks, favored by pilots of yore as a dependable aid to surface navigation before radio.

Iron Carbide: A binary compound of carbon and iron: it becomes the strengthening constituent in steel.

Integrated Development Environment (IDE): A programming environment integrated into an application. For example, Microsoft Office applications support various versions of the BASIC programming language. You can develop a WordBasic a . . . View Full Definition