ceramic

[ suh-ram-ik ]
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adjective
  1. of or relating to products made from clay and similar materials, as pottery and brick, or to their manufacture: ceramic art.

noun
  1. ceramic material.

Origin of ceramic

1
1840–50; variant of keramic<Greek keramikós, equivalent to kéram(os) potters' clay + -ikos-ic

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British Dictionary definitions for ceramic

ceramic

/ (sɪˈræmɪk) /


noun
  1. a hard brittle material made by firing clay and similar substances

  2. an object made from such a material

adjective
  1. of, relating to, or made from a ceramic: this vase is ceramic

  2. of or relating to ceramics: ceramic arts and crafts

Origin of ceramic

1
C19: from Greek keramikos, from keramos potter's clay, pottery

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Scientific definitions for ceramic

ceramic

[ sə-rămĭk ]


  1. Any of various hard, brittle, heat- and corrosion-resistant materials made typically of metallic elements combined with oxygen or with carbon, nitrogen, or sulfur. Most ceramics are crystalline and are poor conductors of electricity, though some recently discovered copper-oxide ceramics are superconductors at low temperatures.

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