CERAMICS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The art of making and decorating pottery

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("ceramics" is a kind of...):

art; artistic creation; artistic production (the creation of beautiful or significant things)

Domain member category:

ceramic (an artifact made of hard brittle material produced from nonmetallic minerals by firing at high temperatures)

glassy; vitreous; vitrified ((of ceramics) having the surface made shiny and nonporous by fusing a vitreous solution to it)

unvitrified ((of ceramics) lacking a vitreous finish)

Derivation:

ceramic (of or relating to or made from a ceramic)

ceramicist; ceramist (a craftsman who shapes pottery on a potter's wheel and bakes them it a kiln)