Look up: adamant

1. adamant
   kind of stone inflexible 
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2. adamant
   [adj] - not capable of being swayed or diverted from a course
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3. Adamant
   archaic or obsolete terms > Stones & Minerals: A stone once believed to be impenetrable in its hardness. An extremely hard substance. Also used in Old English to mean magnet. As the name of any stone of impenetrable hardness it is often the name given to the diamond.
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4. Adamant
   Ad'a·mant (ăd'ȧ*mănt) noun [ Middle English adamaunt , adamant , diamond, magnet, Old French adamant , Latin adamas , adamantis , the hardest metal, from Greek 'ada`mas , -antos
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5. adamant
   1. A stone imagined by some to be of impenetrable hardness; a name given to the diamond and other substance of extreme hardness; but in modern minerology it has no technical signification. It is now a rhetorical or poetical name for the embodiment of impenetrable hardness. 'Opposed the rocky orb Of ...
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6. adamant
   adamantine adjective impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason; `he is adamant in his refusal to change his mind`; `Cynthia was inexorable; she would have none of him`- W.Churchill; `an intrans...
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7. Adamant
   • (n.) A stone imagined by some to be of impenetrable hardness; a name given to the diamond and other substances of extreme hardness; but in modern mineralogy it has no technical signification. It is now a rhetorical or poetical name for the embodiment of impenetrable hardness. • (n.) Lodestone; magnet.
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8. adamant
   adamant Adam's aunt.
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9. Adamant
   HMS Adamant was a British submarine depot ship of 12500 tons displacement launched in 1939. HMS Adamant had a top speed of 17 knots and was armed with eight 4.5 inch guns and two multiple pompoms.
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10. Adamant
    `Adamant ` and similar words are used to refer to any especially hard substance, whether composed of diamond, some other gemstone, or some type of metal. Both adamant and diamond derive from the Greek word αδαμας (adamastos), meaning "untameable".
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