English Explanatory Dictionary

carbon

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The chemical element (symbol C) with an atomic number of 6. It can be found in pure form for example as graphite, a black, shiny and very soft material, or diamond, a colourless, transparent, crystalline solid and the hardest known material.
  2. An atom of this element, in reference to a molecule containing it.
  3. A sheet of carbon paper.
  4. A carbon copy.
  5. A fossil fuel that is made of impure carbon such as coal or charcoal.
  6. Soot.
  7. Especially, hardened soot as a caked-on deposit.
  8. Ellipsis of carbon dioxide.
  9. A carbon rod or pencil used in an arc lamp.
  10. A plate or piece of carbon used as one of the elements of a voltaic battery.
  11. Ellipsis of carbon fiber (reinforced polymer).
verb
  1. To send a carbon copy of an email message to.
name
  1. A surname.
  2. A place name:
  3. A village in Kneehill County, Alberta, Canada.
  4. A number of places in the United States:
  5. A town in Van Buren Township, Clay County, Indiana.
  6. A minor city and coal town in Douglas Township, Adams County, Iowa.
  7. An unincorporated community and coal town in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.
  8. A town in Eastland County, Texas.

Pronunciation

kärʹbən /ˈkɑɹ.bən/ /ˈkɑːbən/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Naomi Persephone Amethyst (NaomiAmethyst)-carbon.wav en-us-carbon.ogg

Word forms

carbon carbons carbone carboning carboned

Etymology

Borrowed from French carbone, coined by Antoine Lavoisier, from Latin carbō, carbōnem (“charcoal, coal”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *kerh₃- (“to burn”). By surface analysis, carbo- + -on.

Synonyms

cc copy

Related words

carbonaceous carbonade carbonado carbonara Carbonari carbonate carboniferous carbonify carbonigenous carbuncle aggregated diamond nanorod amorphous carbon buckminsterfullerene ceraphite chaoite charcoal coal diamond fullerene graphene graphite lamp black lead lonsdaleite soot steel Carbon County East Carbon

Derived words

anticarbon benzyloxycarbonyl biocarbon carbapenem carbazotic acid carb- carbo- carbinol carbinyl carbogen Carboloy carbon-13 NMR carbonæmia carbon anhydride carbon arc carbonate carbonation carbon audit carbon-based carbon bisulfide carbon bisulphide carbon black carbon budget carbon burning carbon capture carbon-carbon bond carbon chauvinism carbon chauvinist carbon chloride carbon-copy carbon copy carbon cost Carbon County carbon credit carbon cycle carbon-date carbon dating carbon debt carbon detonation carbon dioxid carbon dioxide carbon dioxide-equivalent carbon dioxide equivalent carbon dioxide snow carbon diselenide carbon disulfide carbon disulphide carbon emissions trading carbon-ferrous carbon fiber carbon fibre carbon fixation carbon footprint carbon-free carbon group carbonian carbonic carbonide carbonific carbonification
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