portland cement

1. 1.

   a cement that hardens under water; made by heating limestone and clay in a kiln and pulverizing the result

   Synonymshydraulic cement

   Broadercement

Questions about portland cement

What does portland cement mean?

portland cement means "a cement that hardens under water; made by heating limestone and clay in a kiln and pulverizing the result".

What is another word for portland cement?

Close synonyms include hydraulic cement. 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 portland cement a common word?

portland cement 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.