"germanium" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /d͡ʒɚˈmeɪni.əm/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-germanium.wav [Southern-England] Forms: germaniums [plural]
enPR: jûrmā'nēəm Rhymes: -eɪniəm Etymology: From Latin Germānia (“Germany”) + -ium. Etymology templates: {{der|en|la|Germānia|t=Germany}} Latin Germānia (“Germany”), {{af|en|-ium}} -ium Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} germanium (countable and uncountable, plural germaniums)
  1. A nonmetallic chemical element (symbol Ge) with an atomic number of 32: a lustrous, hard-brittle, grayish-white metalloid in the carbon group. Wikidata QID: Q867 Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Germanium Translations (chemical element): germanium (Afrikaans), germanium (Albanian), جَرْمَانْيُوم (jarmanyum) [masculine] (Arabic), գերմանիում (germanium) (Armenian), xermaniu [masculine] (Asturian), germanioa (Basque), герма́ній (hjermánij) [masculine] (Belarusian), germaniom (Breton), герма́ний (germánij) [masculine] (Bulgarian), germani [masculine] (Catalan), (Chinese Mandarin), (zhě) (Chinese Mandarin), germanyum (Cornish), germanium [neuter] (Czech), germanium [neuter] (Danish), germanium [neuter] (Dutch), germaniumo (Esperanto), germaanium (Estonian), germanium [neuter] (Faroese), germanium (Finnish), germanium [masculine] (French), gjermani (Friulian), xermanio [masculine] (Galician), გერმანიუმი (germaniumi) (Georgian), Germanium [neuter] (German), γερμάνιο (germánio) [neuter] (Greek), גרמניום (germányum) [masculine] (Hebrew), सिकातु (sikātu) (Hindi), germánium (Hungarian), german [neuter] (Icelandic), germanium (Interlingua), gearmáiniam [masculine] (Irish), germanio [masculine] (Italian), ゲルマニウム (gerumaniumu) (Japanese), germón (Kashubian), германий (germanii) (Kazakh), ស៊ែម៉ាញ៉ូម (sɛɛmaañoum) (Khmer), 게르마늄 (gereumanyum) (Korean), 저마늄 (jeomanyum) (Korean), germānijs [masculine] (Latvian), jemani class 9a/10a (Lingala), germanis [masculine] (Lithuanian), Germanium (Luxembourgish), германиум (germanium) [masculine] (Macedonian), germanium (Malay), ġermanju [masculine] (Maltese), germaanium (Manx), германи (germani) (Mongolian), germanium [neuter] (Norwegian), germani [masculine] (Occitan), ژرمانیوم (žermâniyom) (Persian), german [masculine] (Polish), germânio [masculine] (Portuguese), germaniu [neuter] (Romanian), герма́ний (germánij) [masculine] (Russian), gearmainium [masculine] (Scottish Gaelic), гѐрма̄ниј [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), германиjум [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), gèrmānij [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), germanijum [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), germánium [neuter] (Slovak), germánij [masculine] (Slovene), germanio [masculine] (Spanish), gerimani (Swahili), germanium [neuter] (Swedish), hermanyo (Tagalog), германий (germaniy) (Tajik), சாம்பலியம் (cāmpaliyam) (Tamil), เจอร์เมเนียม (jəə-mee-nîiam) (Thai), germanyum (Turkish), герма́ній (hermánij) [masculine] (Ukrainian), ґерма́ній (germánij) [masculine] (Ukrainian), германий (germaniy) (Uzbek), germaniy (Uzbek), gecmani (Vietnamese), gärmin (Volapük), germaniwm [masculine] (Welsh), germanium (West Frisian)
    Sense id: en-germanium-en-noun-en:Q867 Disambiguation of Germanium: 80 20 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English links with redundant wikilinks, English terms suffixed with -ium Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 84 16 Disambiguation of English links with redundant wikilinks: 81 19 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ium: 83 17 Disambiguation of 'chemical element': 71 29
  2. (countable) An atom of this element. Tags: countable
    Sense id: en-germanium-en-noun-HOF9IjCz
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: germane, germanomethane, monogermane, argyrodite, ekasilicon

Inflected forms

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    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "jəə-mee-nîiam",
      "sense": "chemical element",
      "word": "เจอร์เมเนียม"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "chemical element",
      "word": "germanyum"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "hermánij",
      "sense": "chemical element",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "герма́ній"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "germánij",
      "sense": "chemical element",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ґерма́ній"
    },
    {
      "code": "uz",
      "lang": "Uzbek",
      "roman": "germaniy",
      "sense": "chemical element",
      "word": "германий"
    },
    {
      "code": "uz",
      "lang": "Uzbek",
      "sense": "chemical element",
      "word": "germaniy"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "chemical element",
      "word": "gecmani"
    },
    {
      "code": "vo",
      "lang": "Volapük",
      "sense": "chemical element",
      "word": "gärmin"
    },
    {
      "code": "cy",
      "lang": "Welsh",
      "sense": "chemical element",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "germaniwm"
    },
    {
      "code": "fy",
      "lang": "West Frisian",
      "sense": "chemical element",
      "word": "germanium"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "germanium"
  ],
  "word": "germanium"
}
{
  "called_from": "form_descriptions/1089",
  "msg": "suspicious unhandled suffix in Lingala: 'jemani class 9a/10a', originally 'jemani class 9a/10a'",
  "path": [
    "germanium"
  ],
  "section": "English",
  "subsection": "noun",
  "title": "germanium",
  "trace": ""
}

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