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Meaning 1
An inactive village in Perry County, Missouri.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
lithium
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/ˈlɪθi.əm/
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lĭth'ēəm
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noun
Meaning 2
The simplest alkali metal, the lightest solid element, and the third lightest chemical element (symbol Li) with an atomic number of 3 and atomic weight of 6.94. It is a soft, silvery metal.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Examples
- The importance of lithium-ion batteries makes lithium a potentially strategic natural resource.
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noun
Meaning 3
A single atom of this element.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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noun
Meaning 4
Lithium carbonate or other preparations of lithium metal used as a mood stabiliser to treat manic depression and bipolar disorders.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: medicine, pharmacology, sciences
Examples
- It seems like his moods are better since he started taking lithium.
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noun
Meaning 5
A lithium battery.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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noun
Meaning 6
a soft silver-white univalent element of the alkali metal group; the lightest metal known; occurs in several minerals
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Li, atomic number 3
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: metallic element, metal
History
Etymology
From one of the place's two natural mineral springs containing lithium salts.
From New Latin lithium, from Ancient Greek λίθος (líthos, “stone”) + -ium.
Across languages
Translations
124 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Afrikaans: litium — chemical element
- Albanian: litiumi — chemical element
- Albanian: litium — chemical element
- Amharic: ሊቲየም (litiyäm) — chemical element
- Arabic: لِيثِيُوم (līṯiyūm) — chemical element
- Aragonese: litio — chemical element
- Armenian: լիթիում (litʻium) — chemical element
- Asturian: litiu — chemical element
- Azerbaijani: litium — chemical element
- Basque: litioa — chemical element
- Belarusian: лі́тый (lítyj) — chemical element
- Bengali: লিথিযাম (lithijam) — chemical element
- Breton: litiom — chemical element
- Bulgarian: ли́тий (lítij) — chemical element
- Burmese: လီသီယမ် (lisiyam) — chemical element
- Catalan: liti — chemical element
- Chinese Cantonese: 鋰 /锂 (lei5) — chemical element
- Eastern Min Chinese: 鋰 /锂 (lī) — chemical element
- Hakka Chinese: 鋰 /锂 (lî) — chemical element
- Chinese: 鋰 /锂 (lí) — chemical element
- Literary Chinese: 鋰 (lǐ) — chemical element
- Chinese Mandarin: 鋰 /锂 (lǐ) — chemical element
- Chuvash: лити (lit̬i) — chemical element
- Cornish: lythyum — chemical element
- Corsican: litiu — chemical element
- Czech: lithium — chemical element
- Danish: lithium — chemical element
- Dutch: lithium — chemical element
- Esperanto: litio — chemical element
- Estonian: liitium — chemical element
- Faroese: litium — chemical element
- Finnish: litium — chemical element
- French: lithium — chemical element
- West-Frisian: litium — chemical element
- Friulian: liti — chemical element
- Galician: litio — chemical element
- Georgian: ლითიუმი (litiumi) — chemical element
- German: Lithium — chemical element
- Central Franconian: Lithium — chemical element
- Greek: λίθιο (líthio) — chemical element
- Haitian Creole: lityòm — chemical element
- Hawaiian: likiuma — chemical element
- Hebrew: לִיתְיוּם (lityúm) — chemical element
- Hindi: लघ्वातु (laghvātu) — chemical element
- Hungarian: lítium — chemical element
- Icelandic: litín — chemical element
- Icelandic: liþín — chemical element
- Icelandic: litíum — chemical element
- Ido: litio — chemical element
- Indonesian: litium — chemical element
- Interlingua: lithium — chemical element
- Irish: litiam — chemical element
- Italian: litio — chemical element
- Japanese: リチウム (richiumu) — chemical element
- Javanese: litium — chemical element
- Kannada: ಲಥಯಮ (lathayama) — chemical element
- Kashubian: lët — chemical element
- Kazakh: литий (litii) — chemical element
- Khmer: លីច្យូម (liicyoum) — chemical element
- Khmer: លីចូម (liicoum) — chemical element
- Korean: 리튬 (rityum) — chemical element
- Northern Kurdish: lîtyûm — chemical element
- Kyrgyz: литий (litiy) — chemical element
- Latin: lithium — chemical element
- Latvian: litijs — chemical element
- Lingala: litu — chemical element
- Lithuanian: litis — chemical element
- Low German: lithium — chemical element
- Luxembourgish: Lithium — chemical element
- Macedonian: литиум (litium) — chemical element
- Malay: litium — chemical element
- Malayalam: ലിഥിയം (lithiyaṁ) — chemical element
- Maltese: litju — chemical element
- Manx: litçhey — chemical element
- Māori: konukōhatu — chemical element
- Mongolian: лити (liti) — chemical element
- Ndonga: olitiuma class 9 — chemical element
- Norwegian: litium — chemical element
- Norwegian Nynorsk: litium — chemical element
- Occitan: liti — chemical element
- Persian: لیتیم (litiyom) — chemical element
- Polish: lit — chemical element
- Portuguese: lítio — chemical element
- Punjabi: ਲਿਥੀਅਮ (lithīama) — chemical element
- Quechua: lityu — chemical element
- Romanian: litiu — chemical element
- Russian: ли́тий (lítij) — chemical element
- Sanskrit: लिथियम (lithiyama) — chemical element
- Scottish Gaelic: litiam — chemical element
- Serbo-Croatian: литијум — chemical element
- Serbo-Croatian: литиј — chemical element
- Serbo-Croatian: litijum — chemical element
- Serbo-Croatian: litij — chemical element
- Sicilian: lìtiu — chemical element
- Sinhalese: ලිතියම් (litiyam) — chemical element
- Slovak: lítium — chemical element
- Slovene: litij — chemical element
- Spanish: litio — chemical element
- Sundanese: litium — chemical element
- Swahili: lithi — chemical element
- Swedish: litium — chemical element
- Tagalog: lityo — chemical element
- Tajik: литий (litiy) — chemical element
- Tamil: மென்னியம் (meṉṉiyam) — chemical element
- Thai: ลิเทียม (lí-tîiam) — chemical element
- Tibetan: རྡོ་རྫས (rdo rdzas) — chemical element
- Turkish: lityum — chemical element
- Turkmen: litiý — chemical element
- Ukrainian: лі́тій (lítij) — chemical element
- Urdu: لتھیئم — chemical element
- Uyghur: لىتىي (litiy) — chemical element
- Uzbek: litiy — chemical element
- Uzbek: литий (litiy) — chemical element
- Vietnamese: lithi — chemical element
- Vietnamese: liti — chemical element
- Volapük: litin — chemical element
- Welsh: lithiwm — chemical element
- Yiddish: ליטיום (lityum) — chemical element
- Bulgarian: ли́тий (lítij) — treatment for mental disorders
- Hindi: लघ्वातु (laghvātu) — treatment for mental disorders
- Mongolian: лити (liti) — treatment for mental disorders
- Serbo-Croatian: литиј — treatment for mental disorders
- Serbo-Croatian: litij — treatment for mental disorders
- Spanish: litio — treatment for mental disorders
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