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palladium.

A safeguard.

9 characters3 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/pəˈleɪdi.əm/General-American, Received-Pronunciation/pəˈlɛjdɪjəm/British, Southern, Standard/pəˈlæɪdi.əm/Australia, New-Zealand/pəˈlede.əm/Scotland
  1. A safeguard.

Where this word comes from

The sense of "safeguard" comes from Latin Palladium (the image of Pallas that protected Troy), from Ancient Greek Παλλάδιον (Palládion), from Παλλάς (Pallás), an epithet used before Athena.

noun/pəˈleɪdi.əm/General-American, Received-Pronunciation/pəˈlɛjdɪjəm/British, Southern, Standard/pəˈlæɪdi.əm/Australia, New-Zealand/pəˈlede.əm/Scotland
  1. A chemical element (symbol Pd) with an atomic number of 46: a rare, lustrous silvery-white metal.

    countable · uncountable
  2. A single atom of this element.

    countable
Where this word comes from

The element was named after Pallas, an asteroid that had been discovered two years before the element.

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