titanic
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See also: Titanic
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: tītănʹĭk IPA(key): /taɪˈtænɪk/
Audio (General American): (file) - Rhymes: -ænɪk
- Hyphenation: ti‧tan‧ic
Etymology 1
See Titanic.
Adjective
titanic (not generally comparable, comparative more titanic, superlative most titanic)
- Alternative letter-case form of Titanic
an great size
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Derived terms
Etymology 2
From titan(ium) + -ic (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives from nouns), in the case of sense 1 (“of or relating to titanium”) modelled after French titanique.[1]
Adjective
titanic (not comparable)
- (inorganic chemistry) Of or relating to titanium, especially tetravalent titanium.
- (mineralogy) Of a mineral, especially iron ore: containing titanium, or from which titanium may be extracted.
- Synonyms: (obsolete) titanian, titaniferous
Derived terms
- fluotitanic acid
- titanate
- titanic acid
- titanic iron ore
- titanico-
- titanic oxide
- titanic schorl
Related terms
Translations
of or relating to titanium, especially tetravalent titanium
of a mineral, especially iron ore: containing titanium, or from which titanium may be extracted
References
- “titanic, adj.2”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, March 2022; “titanic2, adj.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Further reading
titanic (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - titanium on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
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