Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- The symbol for the element sodium.
- abbr. Bible Nahum
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- An obsolete or dialectal (Scotch) form of no.
- In chem., the symbol for sodium (NL. natrium).
- An abbreviation of National Academy of Design.
- An abbreviaton of National Academy of Sciences.
Wiktionary
- n. chemistry Symbol for sodium.
GNU Webster's 1913
- obsolete No, not. See no.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group; occurs abundantly in natural compounds (especially in salt water); burns with a yellow flame and reacts violently in water; occurs in sea water and in the mineral halite (rock salt)
Etymologies
- Latin natrium. (Wiktionary)
- From New Latin natrium, from French natron, natron; see natron. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
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