Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. See tungsten.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A native tungstate of iron and manganese. Its color is generally a brownish or grayish black, and it has a reddish-brown streak. The specific gravity (7.2 to 7.5) is nearly equal to that of metallic iron. It occurs crystallized, also massive with lamellar structure: it is the ore from which the metal tungsten is usually obtained, and is often found associated with tinstone. Also called
wolframite . - n. The metal tungsten or wolframium: an improper and now uncommon use.
Wiktionary
- n. wolframite
- n. tungsten
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Min.) Same as wolframite.
- n. same as tungsten.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a heavy grey-white metallic element; the pure form is used mainly in electrical applications; it is found in several ores including wolframite and scheelite
Etymologies
- From German Wolfram, of disputed origin; possibly Wolf ("wolf") + Ram ("dirt, soot"); or Wolf ("wolf") + Rahm ("cream"), calque of Latin lupī spūma “wolf’s foam”; or from a surname. (Wiktionary)
- German, wolframite, tungsten : probably Wolf, wolf (from Middle High German, from Old High German; see wl̥kwo- in Indo-European roots) + -ram (from Middle High German rām, dirt). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
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“Further trivia: wolfram is the old name for tungsten, and there's both a Wolfram Syndrome and, better known, a Munchausen Syndrome”
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“By 1942, the German war machine was nearly totally dependent on Portuguese and Spanish wolfram.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘wolfram’.
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Minerals and Mineralogy
List of minerals, elements, group names and geochemistry terms encountered in the science of mineralogy. I've chosen to avoid capital letters in most examples, though a great many mineral names hon...
galkhaite, xanthoconite, pyrostilpnite, polybasite, pyrargyrite, djurleite, digenite, covellite, chalcocite, cerargirite, acanthite, aeschynite and 2608 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
abaca, abdominal, abrasive, absorbent, absorber, accelerator, accessory, account book, accumulator, acebutolol, acetaldehyde, acetamide and 4515 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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Noah's Park
Hello, and Welcome™! Come and visit our most diverse land of our Animalesque™ adventures. Here at Noah's Park™ we have Virtually All You'd Ever Want To See™. An experience that is related to ani...
sheep's eyes, doe-eyed, cat-eyed, bug-eyed, cat's paw, black swan, leapfrog, menagerie, cold turkey, card shark, snail's pace, bull's eye and 362 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, W
washboard, winterbourne, winze, wirble, waterway, windrow, winceyette, waft, whiffletree, wheelbarrow, whicker, wacky and 170 more...
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noele's list
vertiginous, verdant, mellifluous, serpentine, verdigris, traject, amaranthine, luminous, phosphorescent, temerous, cerulean, shapeshifter and 531 more...
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science
mitochondrion, wolfram, alkali, argon, bioluminescence, animalia, dendrite, tesseract, emergence, chlorophyll, valence, chroma and 4 more...
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medieval
ghosts
ancestors
unnameable, unknowable, unfathomable
the feeling of reading Joseph Conrad or H. P. Lovecraft
or walking through Kunark in EverQuest
or looking at medi...horror, gloom, melancholia, malebolgia, leviathan, dwelling, dread, cthulu, azazel, bog, skein, pilfer and 32 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for wolfram.
seanahan I made a very bad joke today, about the makers of Mathematica suing the periodic table, resulting in tungsten. When nobody laughed I said "too obscure?", and they replied, "too unfunny". Nov 3, 2007
sionnach 100% mineral, despite the name - there is nothing lupine or ovine about it. Nov 3, 2007