Word.ws English Dictionary

rare earth element

rare earth element noun: any of a group of seventeen soft, lustrous, sometimes magnetic metals that form trivalent salts, which includes the lanthanides plus yttrium and scandium.

Noun

rare earth element (plural rare earth elements)

  1. Any of a group of seventeen soft, lustrous, sometimes magnetic metals that form trivalent salts, which includes the lanthanides plus yttrium and scandium.

rare earth element meaning in Tamil and Vietnamese

rare earth element in Tamil

அருமண் தனிமம்

rare earth element in Vietnamese

type of metal
đất hiếm, các nguyên tố đất hiếm

Forms of rare earth element

pluralrare earth elements
alternative formrare-earth element

Questions about rare earth element

What does rare earth element mean?
Rare earth element means any of a group of seventeen soft, lustrous, sometimes magnetic metals that form trivalent salts, which includes the lanthanides plus yttrium and scandium.
What is rare earth element in Tamil?
Rare earth element in Tamil is அருமண் தனிமம். See Rare earth element meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is rare earth element?
Rare earth element is a noun.
What is the plural of rare earth element?
The plural of rare earth element is rare earth elements.

Words near rare earth element in the dictionary

  1. rare as hen's teeth
  2. rare as rocking horse shit
  3. rare bird
  4. rare birds
  5. rare earth
  6. rare earth element
  7. rare earth elements
  8. Rare Earth hypothesis
  9. rare earth magnet
  10. rare earth magnets
  11. rare earth metal

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: rare earth element (page history and authors); rare earth element (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “rare earth element.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/rare_earth_element. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.