Definition of Paladium
Palladium, a statue of Pallas in Troy, on the preservation of which
depended the safety of the city, and from the date of the abstraction of
which by Ulysses and Diomedes the fate of it was doomed; it was fabled to
have fallen from heaven upon the plain of Troy, and to have after its
abstraction been transferred to Athens and Argos; it is now applied to
any safeguard of the liberty of a State.
- Wikipedia
Pal*la"di*um (?), n. [L., fr. Gr. &?;,
fr. &?;, &?;, Pallas.]
1. (Gr. Antiq.) Any statue of the
goddess Pallas; esp., the famous statue on the preservation of which
depended the safety of ancient Troy.
2. Hence: That which affords effectual
protection or security; a safeguard; as, the trial by jury is the
palladium of our civil rights. Blackstone.
Pal*la"di*um, n. [NL.] (Chem.)
A rare metallic element of the light platinum group, found
native, and also alloyed with platinum and gold. It is a silver-white
metal resembling platinum, and like it permanent and untarnished in
the air, but is more easily fusible. It is unique in its power of
occluding hydrogen, which it does to the extent of nearly a thousand
volumes, forming the alloy Pd2H. It is used for graduated
circles and verniers, for plating certain silver goods, and somewhat
in dentistry. It was so named in 1804 by Wollaston from the asteroid
Pallas, which was discovered in 1802. Symbol Pd. Atomic weight,
106.2.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- (countable) a safeguard (from a statue of Athena that was believed to safeguard the ancient city of Troy).
- (uncountable) a metallic chemical element (symbol Pd) with an atomic number of 46.
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