titanic - Definitions from Dictionary.com

10 results for: titanic

Browse Nearby Entries

Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This

ti·tan·ic1

Audio Help [tahy-tan-ik, ti-] Pronunciation Key

–adjective Chemistry.

of or containing titanium, esp. in the tetravalent state.

[Origin: 1820–30; titan(ium) + -ic

]

Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1)
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006.

Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
titanic

To learn more about titanic visit Britannica.com

Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This

ti·tan·ic2

Audio Help [tahy-tan-ik] Pronunciation Key

–adjective

1.	(initial capital letter) of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the Titans.

2.	Also, titan. of enormous size, strength, power, etc.; gigantic.

[Origin: 1650–60; < Gk Tītānikós. See Titan, -ic

]

—Related forms

ti·tan·i·cal·ly, adverb

Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1)
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006.

Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This

Ti·tan·ic

Audio Help [tahy-tan-ik] Pronunciation Key

–noun

a British luxury liner that sank after colliding with an iceberg in the North Atlantic on its maiden voyage in April, 1912, with a loss of 1517 lives.

Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1)
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006.

American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

ti·tan·ic¹ Audio Help (tī-tān'ĭk) Pronunciation Key
adj.

Titanic Of or relating to the Titans.
1. Having great stature or enormous strength; huge or colossal: titanic creatures of the deep.
2. Of enormous scope, power, or influence: "a deepening sense that some titanic event lay just beyond the horizon" (W. Bruce Lincoln).

ti·tan'i·cal·ly adv.

(Download Now or Buy the Book)

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2006 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

ti·tan·ic² Audio Help (tī-tān'ĭk, -tā'nĭk, tĭ-) Pronunciation Key
adj. Relating to or containing titanium, especially with valence 4.

(Download Now or Buy the Book)

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2006 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

WordNet - Cite This Source - Share This

titanic
adjective
of great force or power

American Heritage New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition - Cite This Source - Share This
Titanic

A British luxury ocean liner, thought to be unsinkable, which nevertheless sank on its first voyage in 1912 after running into an iceberg in the north Atlantic Ocean. More than fifteen hundred people drowned.

[Chapter:] World History since 1550

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Titanic

Ti*tan"ic\, a. Of or relating to Titans, or fabled giants of ancient mythology; hence, enormous in size or strength; as, Titanic structures.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Titanic

Ti*tan"ic\, a. [Cf. F. titanique.] (Chem.) Of or pertaining to titanium; derived from, or containing, titanium; specifically, designating those compounds of titanium in which it has a higher valence as contrasted with the titanous compounds.

Titanic acid (Chem.), a white amorphous powder, Ti.(OH)4, obtained by decomposing certain titanates; -- called also normal titanic acid. By extension, any one of a series of derived acids, called also metatitanic acid, polytitanic acid, etc.

Titanic iron ore. (Min.) See Menaccanite.

On-line Medical Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

titanic

titanic: in CancerWEB's On-line Medical Dictionary

Browse Nearby Entries: