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
- Holy Spirit
- holy temple
- holy war
- Holy Week
- homage
- home
- home accessories
- home advantage
- home and dry
- home appliance
- home baker
- home birth
- homebody
- homeboy
- home-brew
- home builder
- home burglary
- homecoming
- homecoming parade
- home computing
- home confinement
- home construction
- home cook
- Home Counties
- home counties