TITANIUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does titanium mean? 

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

1. a light strong grey lustrous corrosion-resistant metallic element used in strong lightweight alloys (as for airplane parts); the main sources are rutile and ilmenite

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TITANIUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A light strong grey lustrous corrosion-resistant metallic element used in strong lightweight alloys (as for airplane parts); the main sources are rutile and ilmenite

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

atomic number 22; Ti; titanium

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

metal; metallic element (any of several chemical elements that are usually shiny solids that conduct heat or electricity and can be formed into sheets etc.)

Domain category:

aeroplane; airplane; plane (an aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets)

Holonyms ("titanium" is a substance of...):

ilmenite (a weakly magnetic black mineral found in metamorphic and plutonic rocks; an iron titanium oxide in crystalline form; a source of titanium)

rutile (a mineral consisting of titanium dioxide in crystalline form; occurs in metamorphic and plutonic rocks and is a major source of titanium)

 Context examples 

This new information about the presence of metal oxides like titanium oxide and other substances will allow much better modeling of exoplanet atmospheres.

(Inferno World with Titanium Skies, ESO)

Without the titanium oxide gas to absorb incoming starlight on the daytime side, the atmospheric temperature grows colder with increasing altitude.

(Hubble Observes Exoplanet that Snows Sunscreen, NASA)

Titanium is produced in the very heart of the explosion, so it traces the shape of the engine driving the disassembly of the star.

(Star Explosion is Lopsided, NASA)

The researchers from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore used chlorine to drill ultra-small holes into the surface of titanium to produce ‘nanopillars’ that mechanically stretch and rupture bacterial membranes.

(Nanopillars help orthopaedic implants resist infection, SciDev.Net)

MXenes are sheets of materials only a few atoms thick that are mostly composed of layers of metals like titanium interleaved by carbon and/or nitrogen.

(Vitamin C is key to protection of new nanomaterial, National Science Foundation)

A titanium metal complex, coordinated with asymmetric beta-diketonate ligands, with antineoplastic activity.

(Budotitane, NCI Thesaurus)

The researchers layered the elements one atomic plane at a time so sheets of titanium oxide one-atom thick transferred an electron to sheets of cobalt oxide with the same thickness.

(Picoscience and a plethora of new materials, National Science Foundation)

They discovered that covering the flakes with a nanolayered coating of titanium disulfide (TiS2)—a material that does not Peierls distort—would stabilize the VS2 flakes and improve their performance within the battery.

(Creating Better Lithium-Ion Batteries Made Possible with New Discovery, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

For the handful of exoplanets with stratospheres, the absorber is typically thought to be a molecule such as titanium oxide, a close relative of titanium dioxide, used on Earth as a paint pigment and sunscreen ingredient.

(WASP-18b Has Smothering Stratosphere Without Water, NASA)

Previous detections of clouds by Hubble at the boundary between day and night, where temperatures mercifully fall, have shown that titanium oxide (popular as a sunscreen) and aluminum oxide (the basis for ruby, the gemstone) could also be molecularly reborn on the ultrahot Jupiters' nightsides.

(Water Is Destroyed, Then Reborn in Ultrahot Jupiters, NASA/JPL)