vanadium

What does vanadium mean?

vanadium means "a soft silvery white toxic metallic element used in steel alloys; it occurs in several complex minerals including carnotite and vanadinite".

How many syllables are in vanadium?

vanadium has 4 syllables: va-na-di-um. The stress falls on "na". In IPA it is /vəˈneɪdiəm/.

What is another word for vanadium?

Close synonyms include V, atomic number 23. 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 vanadium a common word?

vanadium 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for vanadium 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.