Usually means: Heavy, durable metal with uses.
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  1. tungsten: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. tungsten: Merriam-Webster
  3. tungsten: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. tungsten: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. tungsten: Collins English Dictionary
  6. tungsten: Vocabulary.com
  7. Tungsten, tungsten: Wordnik
  8. tungsten: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. tungsten: Wiktionary
  10. tungsten: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. tungsten: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. tungsten: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. tungsten: Dictionary.com
  14. tungsten: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Tungsten (disambiguation), Tungsten: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Tungsten: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. tungsten: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. tungsten: Rhymezone
  19. Tungsten: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. tungsten: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. tungsten: FreeDictionary.org
  22. tungsten: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. tungsten: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  2. tungsten: Financial dictionary

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  1. tungsten: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. tungsten: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  5. tungsten: Medical dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Tungsten: Extragalactic Astronomy
  2. tungsten: WebElements Periodic Table of the Elements

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  1. Tungsten: Urban Dictionary

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  3. Tungsten: Nikonians Photo Glossary
  4. Tungsten: Glossary of Mining Terms
  5. PhotoNotes Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography (No longer online)

(Note: See tungstens as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A rare metallic chemical element (symbol W, from Latin wolframium) with an atomic number of 74.
noun:  A light bulb containing tungsten.
noun:  (mineralogy, obsolete) scheelite, calcium tungstate

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