cemento

Definitions of cemento
  1. noun
    a building material that is a powder made of a mixture of calcined limestone and clay; used with water and sand or gravel to make concrete and mortar
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    type of:
    laterizio, materiale da costruzione
    material used for constructing buildings
  2. noun
    a connection that fastens things together
    synonyms: vincolo
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    types:
    legamento
    any connection or unifying bond
    catena
    a series of (usually metal) rings or links fitted into one another to make a flexible ligament
    type of:
    connessione, connettore
    an instrumentality that connects
  3. noun
    concrete pavement is sometimes referred to as cement
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    type of:
    calcestruzzo
    a strong hard building material composed of sand and gravel and cement and water
  4. noun
    a specialized bony substance covering the root of a tooth
  5. noun
    an alloy of mercury with another metal (usually silver) used by dentists to fill cavities in teeth; except for iron and platinum all metals dissolve in mercury and chemists refer to the resulting mercury mixtures as amalgams
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    type of:
    lega
    a mixture containing two or more metallic elements or metallic and nonmetallic elements usually fused together or dissolving into each other when molten
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