titanium
(taɪteɪniəm )
uncountable noun
Titanium is a light strong white metal.
His hearing is now entirely controlled by a computer sending signals to a ceramic and titanium unit.
Image of titanium
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Collocations:
titanium plate
He fashioned a new neck vertebra from a bit of my hip and laced the neck together with a titanium plate.
Times, Sunday Times
But the decision to fit a titanium plate means that the fragment can instead be given to her as a memento.
Times, Sunday Times
And they rebuilt her face - pulling her shattered cheekbone back together and holding it in place with a titanium plate in surgery which set her back 10,000.
The Sun
He shattered two vertebrae and needed a titanium plate in his back, which ended his jet-flying career.
The Sun
I have a titanium plate in there now.
Times, Sunday Times
Translations:
Chinese: 钛
Japanese: チタン
- petrifying
- petrochemical
- petro-chemical
- petrochemical industry
- petrochemical plant
- petrodollars
- petro-dollars
- petrol
- petrol bomb
- petrol car
- petroleum
- petroleum by-product
- petroleum diesel
- petroleum engineering
- petroleum jelly
- petroleum refinery
- petroleum reserves
- petrolhead
- petrol shortage
- petrol station
- petrol tank
- petticoat
- pettifogging
- pettiness
- petting