adamantium
noun/ˌæ.dəˈmæn.tɪ.əm/US
Etymology
From adamant + -ium (suffix forming humorous- or scientific-sounding fictional substance names).
Definitions
A fictional metal which is indestructible or nearly so.
- It was a bullet. It was a small slug of adamantium, the toughest and hardest of all metals, crammed to capacity with the terrific explosive feroxite and would burst instantly on any reasonable heavy impact.
- It's imperative that these experiments be concluded with haste! The military must know the potential of this new adamantium at once! Even the President is standing by!
- We knew the egg was adamantium. Not much else could have been learnt.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for adamantium. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
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