CERAMICS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ceramics mean? 

• CERAMICS (noun)
  The noun CERAMICS has 1 sense:

1. the art of making and decorating pottery

  Familiarity information: CERAMICS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CERAMICS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The art of making and decorating pottery

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("ceramics" is a kind of...):

art; artistic creation; artistic production (the creation of beautiful or significant things)

Domain member category:

ceramic (an artifact made of hard brittle material produced from nonmetallic minerals by firing at high temperatures)

glassy; vitreous; vitrified ((of ceramics) having the surface made shiny and nonporous by fusing a vitreous solution to it)

unvitrified ((of ceramics) lacking a vitreous finish)

Derivation:

ceramic (of or relating to or made from a ceramic)

ceramicist; ceramist (a craftsman who shapes pottery on a potter's wheel and bakes them it a kiln)

 Context examples 

The invention, called a liquid-entrenched smooth surface (LESS) coating, involves two separate treatments, both presented as suitable for spraying onto ceramics amongst other materials.

(Materials scientists invent new coating for self-cleaning, water-efficient toilets, Wikinews)

Nickel monoxide is used in the electronics, ceramics, steel and alloy industries.

(Nickel Monoxide, NCI Thesaurus)

Beryllium sulfate is mainly used to produce beryllium oxide for high-technology ceramics.

(Beryllium Sulfate, NCI Thesaurus)

It is used in high-technology ceramics, electronic heat sinks, electrical insulators, high-power devices, high-density electrical circuits, microwaves, X-ray windows, nuclear reactor fuels and for various aerospace and military applications.

(Beryllium Oxide, NCI Thesaurus)

This mineral is primarily used to produce beryllium metal and beryllium compounds for use in high-technology applications in the nuclear, electronics, defense, aerospace and ceramics industry.

(Beryl Ore, NCI Thesaurus)