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

1 sense of tellurium

Sense 1
tellurium, Te, atomic number 52 -- (a brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur; it is used in alloys and as a semiconductor; occurs mainly as tellurides in ores of copper and nickel and silver and gold)
       => 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)