palladium

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Pronunciation

• enPR: pəlā'dēəm, IPA: /pəˈleɪdiəm/

Noun

palladium (plural palladia)

1. A safeguard.

   • The trial by jury is the Palladium of our civil rights.

   • 1837 Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History

     [H]ow unspeakably ominous to dim Royalist participators; for whom Royalism was Mankind's palladium[.]

Translations

• German: Schutz
• Russian: палла́диум
• Spanish: paladión

Noun

palladium

1. A chemical element (symbol Pd) with an atomic number of 46: a rare, lustrous silvery-white metal.
2. (countable) A single atom of this element.

Related terms

• Pallas

Translations

• French: palladium
• German: Palladium
• Italian: palladio
• Portuguese: paládio
• Russian: палла́дий
• Spanish: paladio

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