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portland cement

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  1. portland cement (noun)
  2. portland-pozzolan cement (noun)

port·land cement

noun \ˈpȯrt-lən(d)-\

Definition of PORTLAND CEMENT

: a hydraulic cement made by finely pulverizing the clinker produced by calcining to incipient fusion a mixture of clay and limestone or similar materials
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Origin of PORTLAND CEMENT

Isle of Portland, England; from its resemblance to a limestone found there
First Known Use: 1824

Rhymes with PORTLAND CEMENT

coincident, disorient, experiment, ferro-cement, glove compartment, inconsequent, informed consent, misrepresent, nonresident, oxygen tent, privatdozent, rubber cement, self-confident, self-evident, sentence fragment, vice president

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