Word Meanings - HOLMIUM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A rare element said to be contained in gadolinite. -- Hol"mic, a.

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• ELEMENTAL
  1. Pertaining to the elements, first principles, and primary ingredients, or to the four supposed elements of the material world; as, elemental air. "Elemental strife." Pope. 2. Pertaining to rudiments or first principles; rudimentary; elementary.
• ELEMENT
  1. One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based. 2. One of the ultimate, undecomposable constituents of any kind of matter. Specifically:
• CONTAINMENT
  That which is contained; the extent; the substance. The containment of a rich man's estate. Fuller.
• ELEMENTALITY
  The condition of being composed of elements, or a thing so composed.
• CONTAINANT
  A container.
• GADOLINITE
  A mineral of a nearly black color and vitreous luster, and consisting principally of the silicates of yttrium, cerium, and iron.
• ELEMENTALISM
  The theory that the heathen divinities originated in the personification of elemental powers.
• ELEMENTATION
  Instruction in the elements or first principles.
• ELEMENTOID
  Resembling an element.
• CONTAINABLE
  Capable of being contained or comprised. Boyle.
• CONTAINER
  One who, or that which, contains.
• ELEMENTAR
  Elementary. Skelton.
• ELEMENTARINESS
  The state of being elementary; original simplicity; uncompounded state.
• ELEMENTARITY
  Elementariness. Sir T. Browne.
• ELEMENTARY
  1. Having only one principle or constituent part; consisting of a single element; simple; uncompounded; as, an elementary substance. 2. Pertaining to, or treating of, the elements, rudiments, or first principles of anything; initial; rudimental;
• CONTAIN
  1. To hold within fixed limits; to comprise; to include; to inclose; to hold. Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can not contain thee; how much less this house! 2 Chron. vi. 18. When that this body did contain a spirit. Shak. What thy stores
• ELEMENTALLY
  According to elements; literally; as, the words, "Take, eat; this is my body," elementally understood.
• TRANSELEMENT; TRANSELEMENTATE
  To change or transpose the elements of; to transubstantiate. Jer. Taylor.
• SELF-CONTAINED
  Having all the essential working parts connected by a bedplate or framework, or contained in a case, etc., so that mutual relations of the parts do not depend upon fastening outside of the machine itself. Self-contained steam engine.
• TRANSELEMENTATION
  Transubstantiation.