Home › Words › C › cadmiumcadmium/ˈkædmiəm/cadmium means A chemical element (symbol Cd) with an atomic number of 48: a soft, silvery-white metal.cadmium is pronounced /ˈkædmiəm/.Etymology1817, from Ancient Greek Καδμεία (Kadmeía, “calamine”), a cadmium-bearing mixture of minerals, which was named after the king Κάδμος (Kádmos, “Cadmus”).nounA chemical element (symbol Cd) with an atomic number of 48: a soft, silvery-white metal.A single atom of this element.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.cerium 69% match — A chemical element (symbol Ce) with an atomic number of 58, a very soft, ductile, silvery-white metal that tarnishes when exposed to air. vs cadmium →dicadmium 65% match — Two cadmium atoms in a molecule. vs cadmium →cadmian 63% match — Containing cadmium. vs cadmium →cadmic 62% match — Pertaining to, derived from, or containing cadmium. vs cadmium →calcium 61% match — The chemical element (symbol Ca) with atomic number 20: a soft, silvery-white alkaline earth metal which occurs naturally as carbonate in limestone and as silicate in many rocks. vs cadmium →caesium 60% match — The chemical element (symbol Cs) with an atomic number of 55. It is a soft, gold-colored, highly reactive alkali metal. vs cadmium →curium 57% match — A radioactive and highly fissile, silver-grey, metallic, transuranic chemical element (symbol Cm) with an atomic number of 96, which is artificially produced in a particle accelerator. vs cadmium →cadmous 57% match — Of a compound, containing cadmium with an oxidation number of 1, however most have been proved to not exist. vs cadmium →