terbium

1. 1.

   a metallic element of the rare earth group; used in lasers; occurs in apatite and monazite and xenotime and ytterbite

   SynonymsTbatomic number 65

   Broadermetallic element

Other forms of terbium

plural

terbiums·

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 terbium

What does terbium mean?

terbium means "a metallic element of the rare earth group; used in lasers; occurs in apatite and monazite and xenotime and ytterbite".

How many syllables are in terbium?

terbium has 3 syllables: ter-bi-um. The stress falls on "ter".

What is another word for terbium?

Close synonyms include Tb, atomic number 65. 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 terbium a common word?

terbium 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.