ceramic

/səˈræmɪk/

/səˈræmɪk/

Other forms: ceramics

Something that's ceramic is made out of clay and baked in a kiln until it's very hard. If you sign up for a pottery class, you will almost certainly make ceramic bowls.

Ceramics, also known as pottery, describes any dishes or other items made from hardened clay. You might have ceramic tile in your bathroom or kitchen, or a beautiful ceramic vase on your mantle. If you're an artist who makes clay sculptures, your art form itself is also ceramics. The word comes from the Greek keramos, "potter's earth."

Definitions of ceramic

1. noun

   an artifact made of hard brittle material produced from nonmetallic minerals by firing at high temperatures
   types:

   brick

   rectangular block of clay baked by the sun or in a kiln; used as a building or paving material

   adobe, adobe brick

   sun-dried brick; used in hot dry climates

   clinker, clinker brick

   a hard brick used as a paving stone

   firebrick

   brick made of fire clay; used for lining e.g. furnaces and chimneys

   cope, coping, header

   brick that is laid sideways at the top of a wall

   mud brick

   a brick made from baked mud

   type of:

   instrumentality, instrumentation

   an artifact (or system of artifacts) that is instrumental in accomplishing some end
2. adjective

   of or relating to or made from a ceramic
   “a ceramic dish”