meitnerium

Questions about meitnerium

What does meitnerium mean?

meitnerium means "a radioactive transuranic element".

How many syllables are in meitnerium?

meitnerium has 4 syllables and divides as me-it-ne-rium under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for meitnerium?

Close synonyms include Mt, element 109, atomic number 109. 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 meitnerium a common word?

meitnerium 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.