noun
Meaning 1
Silicon dioxide.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
silica
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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UK: /ˈsɪl.ɪ.kə/
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noun
Meaning 2
Any of the silica group of the silicate minerals.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 3
a white or colorless vitreous insoluble solid (SiO2); various forms occur widely in the earth's crust as quartz or cristobalite or tridymite or lechatelierite
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: silicon oxide, silicon dioxide
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: oxide
Narrower terms: chert, flint, silex
History
Etymology
From New Latin silica, from Latin silex (“hard stone, flint”), on model of alumina, soda.
Across languages
Translations
21 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Asturian: síliz — silicon dioxide
- Bulgarian: силициев диоксид (siliciev dioksid) — silicon dioxide
- Catalan: sílice — silicon dioxide
- Chinese Mandarin: 二氧化硅 (èryǎnghuàguī) — silicon dioxide
- Esperanto: siliko — silicon dioxide
- Finnish: piidioksidi — silicon dioxide
- Finnish: silika — silicon dioxide
- French: silice — silicon dioxide
- Italian: silice — silicon dioxide
- Japanese: シリカ (shirika) — silicon dioxide
- Persian: سیلیس (silis) — silicon dioxide
- Portuguese: sílica — silicon dioxide
- Romanian: silică — silicon dioxide
- Russian: кремнезём (kremnezjóm) — silicon dioxide
- Spanish: sílice — silicon dioxide
- Swedish: kiseldioxid — silicon dioxide
- Bulgarian: кварц (kvarc) — silica group of the silicate minerals
- Esperanto: siliko — silica group of the silicate minerals
- Finnish: hohkasilikaatti — silica group of the silicate minerals
- Italian: silice — silica group of the silicate minerals
- Spanish: sílice — silica group of the silicate minerals
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