PERIODIC TABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does periodic table mean? 

• PERIODIC TABLE (noun)
  The noun PERIODIC TABLE has 1 sense:

1. (chemistry) a tabular arrangement of the chemical elements according to atomic number as based on the periodic law

  Familiarity information: PERIODIC TABLE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PERIODIC TABLE (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)

 Context examples 

But, until now, we did not know the location of the final, undiscovered process, known as rapid neutron capture, that created the heavier elements in the periodic table.

(First identification of a heavy element born from neutron star collision, ESO)

The scientists recently authored a new study that moves picoscience in yet another direction: taking elements from the periodic table and tinkering with them at the subatomic level to tease out new materials.

(Picoscience and a plethora of new materials, National Science Foundation)

Elements 113, 115, 117, and 118 complete the bottom row of the current periodic table.

(IUPAC proposes four new chemical element names, Wikinews)