livermorium

[liv-er-mawr-ee-uhm, -mohr-]

noun

Chemistry, Physics.

1. a superheavy, synthetic, radioactive element with a very short half-life. Lv; 116.

Word History and Origins

Origin of livermorium¹

First recorded in 2010–15; named after Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, which participated in its creation.

Example Sentences

However, Livermorium says it’s now focusing its efforts on an actual phone, called the “Q-device,” which will be a “high-end and premium landscape slider phone.”

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We really thought the keyboard Moto Z Mod might actually ship, but yesterday, the company behind it — Livermorium — issued a final update on Indiegogo saying it’s not happening.

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The Slider Keyboard Moto Mod, developed by a third-party company called Livermorium, was the winner of Motorola and Indiegogo’s Transform the Smartphone Challenge, after which it was put through Motorola’s Accelerator Program where the cellphone company worked on the device alongside Livermorium.

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Party like it’s 2002 As Livermorium originally promised, the Slider Keyboard mod attaches to the back of your Moto Mod-compatible device, and brings back a full physical keyboard that slides out in landscape mode and tilts the screen up at a 60-degree angle.

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“OED traditionally waits for 10 years of evidence before we add a word but there are exceptions such as livermorium, a chemical element, in this update, which has only been around since 2012. At the same time the wider project of revising the whole text of the dictionary continues.”

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