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 Definitions of Mercury  [ˈmɜr kyə ri]  

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Definition of 'Mercury' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) mercury
a heavy, silver-white, toxic metallic element, liquid at room temperature: used in barometers, thermometers, pesticides, pharmaceuticals, mirror surfaces, and as a laboratory catalyst; quicksilver.

2.  mercury
this metal as used in medicine, in the form of various compounds, usu. for skin infections.

3.  mercury
temperature:
The mercury climbed to over a hundred today.

4.  mercury
(cap.) the Roman god of commerce, thievery, eloquence, and science, and messenger to the other gods: identified with the Greek god Hermes.

5.  mercury
(cap.) the planet nearest the sun, having a diameter of 3031 mi. (4878 km), a mean distance from the sun of 36 million mi. (57.9 million km), and a period of revolution of 87.96 days, and having no satellites.

6.  mercury
any plant belonging to the genus Mercurialis, of the spurge family, esp. the poisonous, weedy M. perennis of Europe.

7.  mercury
any of several common weeds with spinachlike leaves, esp. weeds of the goosefoot family.

8.  mercury
a messenger.

Etymology:  (1300–50; ME Mercurie < ML, L Mercurius, akin to merx goods)

Definition of 'Mercury' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) mercury, quicksilver, hydrargyrum, Hg, atomic number 80
a heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element; the only metal that is liquid at ordinary temperatures

2. (noun) Mercury
(Roman mythology) messenger of Jupiter and god of commerce; counterpart of Greek Hermes

3. (noun) Mercury
the smallest planet and the nearest to the sun

4. (noun) mercury
temperature measured by a mercury thermometer
"the mercury was falling rapidly"


Definition of 'Mercury' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (noun) mercury
a silver liquid chemical element, used in thermometers


Definition of 'Mercury' Webster Dictionary 

1. (noun) Mercury
a Latin god of commerce and gain; -- treated by the poets as identical with the Greek Hermes, messenger of the gods, conductor of souls to the lower world, and god of eloquence

2. (noun) Mercury
a metallic element mostly obtained by reduction from cinnabar, one of its ores. It is a heavy, opaque, glistening liquid (commonly called quicksilver), and is used in barometers, thermometers, ect. Specific gravity 13.6. Symbol Hg (Hydrargyrum). Atomic weight 199.8. Mercury has a molecule which consists of only one atom. It was named by the alchemists after the god Mercury, and designated by his symbol, /

3. (noun) Mercury
one of the planets of the solar system, being the one nearest the sun, from which its mean distance is about 36,000,000 miles. Its period is 88 days, and its diameter 3,000 miles

4. (noun) Mercury
a carrier of tidings; a newsboy; a messenger; hence, also, a newspaper

5. (noun) Mercury
sprightly or mercurial quality; spirit; mutability; fickleness

6. (noun) Mercury
a plant (Mercurialis annua), of the Spurge family, the leaves of which are sometimes used for spinach, in Europe

7. (verb) Mercury
to wash with a preparation of mercury


Definitions of 'Mercury' The Nuttall Encyclopedia 

1.  Mercury
the Roman name for the Greek Hermes, the son of Jupiter and Maia, the messenger of the gods, the patron of merchants and travellers, and the conductor of the souls of the dead to the nether world.

2.  Mercury
an interior planet of the Solar system, whose orbit is nearest the sun, the greatest distance being nearly 43,000,000 m. and the least over 28,000,000, is one-seventeenth the size of the earth, but is of greater density, and accomplishes its revolution in about 84 days; it is visible just before the sun rises and after it sets, but that very seldom owing to the sun's neighbourhood.


Definition of 'Mercury' U.S. National Library of Medicine 

1.  Mercury
A silver metallic element that exists as a liquid at room temperature. It has the atomic symbol Hg (from hydrargyrum, liquid silver), atomic number 80, and atomic weight 200.59. Mercury is used in many industrial applications and its salts have been employed therapeutically as purgatives, antisyphilitics, disinfectants, and astringents. It can be absorbed through the skin and mucous membranes which leads to MERCURY POISONING. Because of its toxicity, the clinical use of mercury and mercurials is diminishing.


Translation of 'Mercury' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: an element, a poisonous, silvery, liquid metal used especially in thermometers etc.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: kwik Arabic flag Arabic: زِئْبَق Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: живак
Brazilian flag Brazilian: mercúrio Czech flag Czech: rtuť German flag German: das Quecksilber
Danish flag Danish: kviksølv Greek flag Greek: υδράργυρος Spanish flag Spanish: mercurio
Estonian flag Estonian: elavhõbe Farsi flag Farsi: جیوه Finnish flag Finnish: elohopea
French flag French: mercure Hebrew flag Hebrew: כַּספִּית Hindi flag Hindi: पारा
Croatian flag Croatian: živa Hungarian flag Hungarian: higany Indonesian flag Indonesian: air raksa
Icelandic flag Icelandic: kvikasilfur Italian flag Italian: mercurio Japanese flag Japanese: 水銀
Korean flag Korean: 수은 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: gyvsidabris Latvian flag Latvian: dzīvsudrabs
Malay flag Malay: merkuri Dutch flag Dutch: kwik Norwegian flag Norwegian: kvikksølv
Polish flag Polish: rtęć Persian flag Persian: سيماب، جیوه Portuguese flag Portuguese: mercúrio
Romanian flag Romanian: mercur Russian flag Russian: ртуть Slovak flag Slovak: ortuť
Slovenian flag Slovenian: živo srebro Serbian flag Serbian: živa Swedish flag Swedish: kvicksilver
Thai flag Thai: ปรอท (สัญลักษณ์ทางเคมีคือ Turkish flag Turkish: civa Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 水銀,汞
Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: ртуть Urdu flag Urdu: پارہ، سیماب Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: thủy ngân
Chinese flag Chinese: 水银,汞

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