uranium

After Uranus (the planet), +‎ -ium.

• (US) enPR: ūrā'nēəm, IPA^(key): /jʊˈɹeɪniəm/

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• Rhymes: -eɪniəm

uranium (countable and uncountable, plural uraniums)

2. The element with atomic number 92 and symbol U: a radioactive silvery-grey metal in the actinide series.
   • 2025 June 29, Laura Sharman and Sophie Tanno, “UN nuclear watchdog chief says Iran could again begin enriching uranium in ‘matter of months’”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     The head of the UN’s nuclear watchdog says US strikes on Iran fell short of causing total damage to its nuclear program and that Tehran could restart enriching uranium “in a matter of months,” contradicting President Donald Trump’s claims the US set Tehran’s ambitions back by decades.

• uranium on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• autunite
• coffinite
• green salt
• hex
• oralloy
• pitchblende
• torbernite
• tuballoy
• yellowcake

uranium

1. alternative form of uran

Borrowed from New Latin uranium.

• IPA^(key): /ˌyˈraː.ni.ʏm/

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• Hyphenation: ura‧ni‧um

uranium n (uncountable)

1. uranium [from 1790s]

• uraan

• IPA^(key): /y.ʁa.njɔm/

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uranium m (uncountable)

1. uranium

• “uranium”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [uːˈra.ni.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [uˈraː.ni.um]

ūranium n (genitive ūraniī); second declension

1. uranium

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• Ūranus
• -ius - -ium

From English uranium, from Uranus.

• IPA^(key): [uraniom], [uraniəm], [jureniəm]
• Rhymes: -iom, -jom, -om

uranium

1. uranium (uranium (element))