Word Meanings - WOLFRAMIUM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The technical name of the element tungsten. See Tungsten.

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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:
• ELEMENTALITY
  The condition of being composed of elements, or a thing so composed.
• TECHNICALLY
  In a technical manner; according to the signification of terms as used in any art, business, or profession.
• TUNGSTENIC
  Of or pertaining to tungsten; containing tungsten; as, tungstenic ores.
• ELEMENTALISM
  The theory that the heathen divinities originated in the personification of elemental powers.
• TECHNICAL
  Of or pertaining to the useful or mechanic arts, or to any science, business, or the like; specially appropriate to any art, science, or business; as, the words of an indictment must be technical. Blackstone.
• ELEMENTATION
  Instruction in the elements or first principles.
• ELEMENTOID
  Resembling an element.
• TECHNICALNESS
  The quality or state of being technical; technicality.
• TECHNICALS
  Those things which pertain to the practical part of an art, science, or profession; technical terms; technics.
• ELEMENTAR
  Elementary. Skelton.
• ELEMENTARINESS
  The state of being elementary; original simplicity; uncompounded state.
• TECHNICALITY
  1. The quality or state of being technical; technicalness. 2. That which is technical, or peculiar to any trade, profession, sect, or the like. The technicalities of the sect. Palfrey.
• TUNGSTEN STEEL
  A steel containing a small amount of tungsten, noted for tenacity and hardness, even under a considerable degree of heat. Magnets made of it are said to be highly permanent. It often contains manganese.
• TUNGSTEN LAMP
  An electric glow lamp having filaments of metallic tungsten. Such lamps, owing to the refractory nature of the metal, may be maintained at a very high temperature and require an expenditure of only about 1.25 watts per candle power.
• TUNGSTEN
  A rare element of the chromium group found in certain minerals, as wolfram and scheelite, and isolated as a heavy steel-gray metal which is very hard and infusible. It has both acid and basic properties. When alloyed in small quantities with steel,
• 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;
• ELEMENTALLY
  According to elements; literally; as, the words, "Take, eat; this is my body," elementally understood.
• POLYTECHNICAL
  Polytechnic.
• TRANSELEMENT; TRANSELEMENTATE
  To change or transpose the elements of; to transubstantiate. Jer. Taylor.
• PHILOTECHNIC; PHILOTECHNICAL
  Fond of the arts.
• TRANSELEMENTATION
  Transubstantiation.
• PYROTECHNIC; PYROTECHNICAL
  Of or pertaining to fireworks, or the art of forming them. Pyrotechnical sponge. See under Sponge.