Meanings
plural zirconiums
- countableuncountableA chemical element (symbol Zr) with an atomic number of 40, a strong, lustrous, grey-white transition metal mainly used as a refractory and opacifier.
Do you like how I dance? / I've got zirconium pants / Consequential enough / To slip you into a trance
2005, Tally Hall, “Ruler of Everything”, in Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum
Synonyms & antonyms
nouna lustrous grey strong metallic element resembling titanium; it is used in nuclear reactors as a neutron absorber; it occurs in baddeleyite but is obtained chiefly from zircon
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
From a New Latin coinage, from zircon. Doublet of jargonium.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Afrikaans sirkonium
- sirkoniumchemical element
Arabic زِرْكُونِيُوم
- زِرْكُونِيُوم (zirkūniyūm)chemical element
Basque zirkonioa
- zirkonioachemical element
Bengali জিরকোনিয়াম
- জিরকোনিয়াম (jirkōniẏam)chemical element
Bulgarian цирко́ний
- цирко́ний (cirkónij)chemical element
Catalan zirconi
- zirconichemical element
Chinese Mandarin 鋯 /锆
- 鋯 /锆 (gào)chemical element
Czech zirkonium
- zirkoniumchemical element
Danish zirconium
- zirconiumchemical element
Dutch zirkonium, zirkoon
- zirkoniumchemical element
- zirkoonchemical element
Esperanto zirkonio
- zirkoniochemical element
Estonian tsirkoonium
- tsirkooniumchemical element
Finnish zirkonium
- zirkoniumchemical element
French zirconium
- zirconiumchemical element
German Zirkon, Zirkonium
- Zirkonchemical element
- Zirkoniumchemical element
Greek ζιρκόνιο
- ζιρκόνιο (zirkónio)chemical element
Hebrew זירקוניום
- זירקוניום (zirkónyum)chemical element
Hindi गोमेदातु, ज़र्कोनियम
- गोमेदातु (gomedātu)chemical element
- ज़र्कोनियम (zarkoniyam)chemical element
Hungarian cirkónium
- cirkóniumchemical element
Icelandic sirkon
- sirkonchemical element
Irish siorcóiniam
- siorcóiniamchemical element
Italian zirconio
- zirconiochemical element
Japanese ジルコニウム
- ジルコニウム (jirukoniumu)chemical element
Korean 지르코늄
- 지르코늄 (jireukonyum)chemical element
Latvian cirkonijs
- cirkonijschemical element
Lithuanian cirkonis
- cirkonischemical element
Malay zirkonium
- zirkoniumchemical element
Norwegian zirkonium
- zirkoniumchemical element
Persian زیرکونیم
- زیرکونیم (zirkoniyom)chemical element
Polish cyrkon
- cyrkonchemical element
Portuguese zircónio, zircônio
- zircóniochemical element
- zircôniochemical element
Romanian zirconiu
- zirconiuchemical element
Russian цирко́ний
- цирко́ний (cirkónij)chemical element
Scottish Gaelic siorcòiniam
- siorcòiniamchemical element
Slovak zirkónium
- zirkóniumchemical element
Spanish circonio
- circoniochemical element
Swedish zirkonium
- zirkoniumchemical element
Tagalog sirkonyo
- sirkonyochemical element
Tamil வன்தங்கம், சிர்க்கோனியம்
- வன்தங்கம் (vaṉtaṅkam)chemical element
- சிர்க்கோனியம் (cirkkōṉiyam)chemical element
Thai เซอร์โคเนียม
- เซอร์โคเนียม (səə-koo-nîiam)chemical element
Turkish zirkonyum
- zirkonyumchemical element
Ukrainian цирко́ній
- цирко́ній (cyrkónij)chemical element
Vietnamese ziriconi
- ziriconichemical element
Welsh zirconiwm
- zirconiwmchemical element
Cite this entry
zirconium. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/zirconium
“zirconium.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/zirconium. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “zirconium,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/zirconium.
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