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PERIODIC TABLE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(chemistry) a tabular arrangement of the chemical elements according to atomic number as based on the periodic law
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("periodic table" is a kind of...):
table; tabular array (a set of data arranged in rows and columns)
Domain category:
chemical science; chemistry (the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions)