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A metallic chemical element (symbol Tb) with an atomic number of 65: a soft, silvery-white, rare earth metal that is malleable and ductile.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
a metallic element of the rare earth group; used in lasers; occurs in apatite and monazite and xenotime and ytterbite
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Tb, atomic number 65
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: metallic element, metal
From Ytterby + -ium, named after Ytterby, Sweden, the same etymological source as yttrium, erbium, and ytterbium.
Across languages
Translations
70 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Afrikaans:
terbium
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Albanian:
terbium
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Arabic:
تِرْبِيُوم
(tirbiyūm)
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Armenian:
տերբիում
(terbium)
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Asturian:
terbiu
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Basque:
terbioa
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Belarusian:
тэ́рбій
(térbij)
— chemical element
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Breton:
terbiom
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Bulgarian:
те́рбий
(térbij)
— chemical element
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Catalan:
terbi
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Chinese Mandarin:
鋱 /铽
(tè)
— chemical element
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Cornish:
terbyum
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Czech:
terbium
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Danish:
terbium
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Dutch:
terbium
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Esperanto:
terbio
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Estonian:
terbium
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Faroese:
terbium
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Finnish:
terbium
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French:
terbium
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West-Frisian:
terbium
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Friulian:
terbi
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Galician:
terbio
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Georgian:
ტერბიუმი
(ṭerbiumi)
— chemical element
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German:
Terbium
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Greek:
τέρβιο
(térvio)
— chemical element
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Hebrew:
טרביום
(térbiyum)
— chemical element
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Hindi:
इद्भृशला
(idbhŕślā)
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Hungarian:
terbium
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Icelandic:
terbín
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Irish:
teirbiam
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Italian:
terbio
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Japanese:
テルビウム
(terubiumu)
— chemical element
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Kashubian:
terb
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Kazakh:
тербий
(terbii)
— chemical element
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Khmer:
ទែប្យូម
(tɛɛpyoum)
— chemical element
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Korean:
테르븀
(tereubyum)
— chemical element
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Korean:
터븀
(teobyum)
— chemical element
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Latin:
terbium
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Latvian:
terbijs
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Lithuanian:
terbis
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Luxembourgish:
Terbium
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Macedonian:
те́рбиум
(térbium)
— chemical element
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Malay:
terbium
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Maltese:
terbjum
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Manx:
çherbium
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Mongolian:
терби
(terbi)
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Norwegian:
terbium
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Polish:
terb
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Portuguese:
térbio
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Romanian:
terbiu
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Russian:
те́рбий
(térbij)
— chemical element
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Scottish Gaelic:
teirbiam
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Serbo-Croatian:
тербиjум
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Serbo-Croatian:
тербиj
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Serbo-Croatian:
terbijum
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Serbo-Croatian:
terbij
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Slovak:
terbium
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Slovene:
terbij
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Spanish:
terbio
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Swedish:
terbium
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Tajik:
тербий
(terbiy)
— chemical element
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Tamil:
தென்னிரும்பு
(teṉṉirumpu)
— chemical element
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Thai:
เทอร์เบียม
(təə-bîiam)
— chemical element
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Turkish:
terbiyum
— chemical element
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Ukrainian:
те́рбій
(térbij)
— chemical element
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Uzbek:
terbiy
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Uzbek:
тербий
(terbiy)
— chemical element
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Vietnamese:
tecbi
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Welsh:
terbiwm
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