Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun mendelevium

1 sense of mendelevium

Sense 1
mendelevium, Md, Mv, atomic number 101 -- (a radioactive transuranic element synthesized by bombarding einsteinium with alpha particles (Md is the current symbol for mendelevium but Mv was formerly the symbol))
       => chemical element, element -- (any of the more than 100 known substances (of which 92 occur naturally) that cannot be separated into simpler substances and that singly or in combination constitute all matter)