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After Buckminster Fuller, inventor of the geodesic dome, + -ide.
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Today it means: a fullerene doped with a metal atom; some of them exhibit superconductivity Full definition →
After Buckminster Fuller, inventor of the geodesic dome, + -ide.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.