Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A synthetic radioactive transuranic element of the actinide series. Atomic number 101; mass numbers 256 and 258; half-lives approximately 1.3 hours (Md 256) and 51.5 days (Md 258). See Table at element.
Wiktionary
- n. A transuranic chemical element (symbol Md, formerly Mv) with atomic number 101.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Chem.) an unstable radioactive element discovered in 1955 and produced artificially only in very small quantities; symbol Md (also Mv). It is a transuranic element with atomic number 101. Isotopes 255, 256, 257, and 258 have been prepared. Md258, the longest-lived, has a half-life of two months.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a radioactive transuranic element synthesized by bombarding einsteinium with alpha particles (Md is the current symbol for mendelevium but Mv was formerly the symbol)
Etymologies
- Named after the scientist Dmitri Mendeleev, who is the creator of the periodic table. The same name was proposed, but rejected, for the earlier-discovered elements berkelium and erbium. (Wiktionary)
- After Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Element number 101 is named mendelevium in his honor.”
“He heedlessly bores through helium, mercury, ytterbium, molybdenum, and more until he reaches mendelevium-and her last nerve.”
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