indium

1. 1.

   a rare soft silvery metallic element; occurs in small quantities in sphalerite

   SynonymsInatomic number 49

   Broadermetallic element

Other forms of indium

plural

indiums·

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.

Questions about indium

What does indium mean?

indium means "a rare soft silvery metallic element; occurs in small quantities in sphalerite".

How many syllables are in indium?

indium has 3 syllables: in-di-um. The stress falls on "in". In IPA it is /ˈɪndiəm/.

What is another word for indium?

Close synonyms include In, atomic number 49. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is indium a common word?

indium is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.