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say it: sur-AM-ik
ceramic is a noun and adjective meaning "an artifact made of hard brittle material produced from nonmetallic minerals by firing at high temperatures". It is pronounced /sɚˈæmɪk/ — sur-AM-ik. It carries 2 recorded senses.
an artifact made of hard brittle material produced from nonmetallic minerals by firing at high temperatures
ceramics
of or relating to or made from a ceramic
“a ceramic dish”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for ceramic come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.