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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
ceramics
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ an exhibit of ceramics at the crafts museum
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Applications include materials analysis in thin film, thick film, insulators, semiconductors, ceramics, metals and alloys.
▪ Glass ceramics are just one example of Schott's development work.
▪ Glasses and ceramics extracted from the regolith may be used as structural materials, paving blocks, or windows.
▪ Her ceramics are sought after at craft fairs in Northallerton, Harrogate and York.
▪ One will make and analyse new kinds of polymers, ceramics and alloys.
▪ The rainbow mobile cast into the corner is a complication of ceramics and fishing line.
▪ Use the shelves to display ceramics, glass or trailing plants.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ceramics

Ceramics \Ce*ram"ics\, n. [See Ceramic.]

  1. The art of making things of baked clay; as pottery, tiles, etc.

  2. pl. Work formed of clay in whole or in part, and baked; as, vases, urns, etc.
    --Knight.

Wiktionary
ceramics

n. 1 (plural of ceramic English) 2 the art or science of making ceramic objects 3 ceramic objects as a group

WordNet
ceramics

n. the art of making and decorating pottery

Usage examples of "ceramics".

And we have ceramics people who can figure out how to work this olla, for blades, if we need them.

Turkish wall ceramics, and the man he had to see is down from Ankara just for today.

Second, passive biomaterials such as homogenous plastics and ceramics which do not actually insult the tissues of the body.

The accoutrements were exceptional, but the centerpieces, which came from the Castleton collection of prized ceramics, were extraordinary: elaborate covered urns from the famous Sivres factory, a Vincennes demi-bouteille, Meissen clocks and vases, Staffordshire animals, Frankenthal figures, Wedgwood luster bowls, Spode jars.

I used her for repairing Art Deco ceramics, until she went ape with a Mauritian singer.

It had large urban centers and remarkable achievements in weaving, ceramics, sculpture.

Id like to give those of you who are into painting and ceramics a brief overview of jades importance in China.

Inside the labs, Humans wearing white overalls over their clean-suits wielded pipettes and needles over glass eggs of culture media, filter dishes of layered ceramics, and even old-fashioned microscopes they must have appropriated from the larger hospital.

They paid ten ceramics apiece for the privilege of creating new characters and remaining in the game, though they lost not only their previous wagers, but all of their experience points as well, since their characters had died.

Emily had received, three years before his own time, for ceramics she had entered in a show.

I remember Mrs Shaw showing me a picture once when she turned up with some ceramics for my department.

The old curator of ceramics lay near the door, looking indignant, as if death was a silly modern fad that he rather disapproved of.

Flecks of ceramics dotted his sooty face, his smile showed a missing tooth, and a shard of glass had actually embedded itself right into his iron pot helmet.

Some elements were forms on which the fuselage would take shape, in composites and ceramics.

Industrial uses of it range from the making of ceramics, special glass, washing powders and disinfectants, to the manufacturing of abrasives and rocket fuels.