Usually means: Compounds of carbon with metals.
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  1. carbides: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. carbides: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (carbide)

noun:  (chemistry) Any binary compound of carbon and a more electropositive element
noun:  (chemistry) The polyatomic ion C₂²⁻, or any of its salts.
noun:  (chemistry) The monatomic ion C⁴⁻, or any of its salts.
noun:  (chemistry) A carbon-containing alloy or doping of a metal or semiconductor, such as steel.
noun:  (chemistry) Tungsten carbide.
noun:  (cycling) trivial name for calcium carbide (CaC₂), used to produce acetylene in bicycle lamps in the early 1900s.
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