crucible
Meaning of crucible
- a ceramic or metal container in which metals or other substances may be melted or subjected to very high temperatures.
the crucible tipped and the mould filled with liquid metal
late Middle English: from medieval Latin crucibulum ‘night lamp, crucible’ (perhaps originally a lamp hanging in front of a crucifix), from Latin crux, cruc- ‘cross’.
Information about crucible
- It is a name.
- The plural form of crucible is: crucibles.
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Hyphenation of crucible
cru-cible
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- crucible is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
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