adamantium en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˌæ.dəˈmæn.tɪ.əm/ (General-American, Received-Pronunciation)
Etymology
From adamant + -ium (suffix forming humorous- or scientific-sounding fictional substance names).
Meanings
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(also, attributive, uncountable) A fictional metal which is indestructible or nearly so.
It's imperative that these experiments be concluded with haste! The military must know the potential of this new adamantium at once! Even the President is standing by!
1969 July, Roy Thomas, “Betrayal”, in Avengers, volume 1, number 66, Marvel Comics:We knew the egg was adamantium. Not much else could have been learnt.
2004, Neal Asher, Gridlinked, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 324:It was a bullet. It was a small slug of adamantium, the toughest and hardest of all metals, crammed to capacity with the terrific explosive feroxite and would burst instantly on any reasonable heavy impact.
1941 June, Malcolm Jameson, “Devil's Powder”, in Astounding Science-Fiction, volume 27, number 4, Street & Smith:
Deriveds
Relateds
unobtainium (imaginary desirably hard material)
Synonyms
Translations (4)
ja アダマンティウム (fictional metal which is indestructible or nearly so) · pt adamantium (fictional metal which is indestructible or nearly so) · ru адама́нтий (fictional metal which is indestructible or nearly so) · ko 아다만티움 (fictional metal which is indestructible or nearly so)