wolfram

Meaning of wolfram

noun

tungsten or its ore, especially as a commercial commodity.

mid 18th century: from German, assumed to be a miners' term, perhaps from Wolf ‘wolf’ + Middle High German rām ‘soot’, probably originally a pejorative term referring to the ore's inferiority to tin, with which it occurred.

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Hyphenation of wolfram

wol-fram

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
  • wolfram is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

wolfram synonyms

Meaning tungsten:

tungsten, W

Words that rhyme with wolfram

Fram, Efram, Wolfram

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