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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
yb is a noun meaning "a soft silvery metallic element; a rare earth of the lanthanide series; it occurs in gadolinite and monazite and xenotime". It carries 4 recorded senses.
a soft silvery metallic element; a rare earth of the lanthanide series; it occurs in gadolinite and monazite and xenotime
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a unit of information equal to 1024 zebibytes or 2^80 bytes
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for yb come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.