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say it: HOHL-mee-uhm
holmium is a noun meaning "a trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group; occurs together with yttrium; forms highly magnetic compounds". It is pronounced /ˈhoʊlmiəm/ — HOHL-mee-uhm. It carries one recorded sense.
a trivalent metallic element of the rare earth group; occurs together with yttrium; forms highly magnetic compounds
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 holmium 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.