Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An abbreviation of cubic
  • noun of cumulus.
  • noun The chemical symbol of copper (Latin cuprum).

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun the chemical symbol for copper.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun chemistry Symbol for copper.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a ductile malleable reddish-brown corrosion-resistant diamagnetic metallic element; occurs in various minerals but is the only metal that occurs abundantly in large masses; used as an electrical and thermal conductor

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From Late Latin cuprum; see copper.]

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