Usually means: Metals crucial for modern technologies.
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General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. rare earth: Merriam-Webster
  2. rare earth: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. rare earth: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. rare earth: Collins English Dictionary
  5. rare earth: Vocabulary.com
  6. Rare-Earth, rare-earth: Wordnik
  7. rare earth: Wiktionary
  8. rare earth: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. rare earth: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. rare earth: Dictionary.com
  11. Rare Earth (band), Rare Earth (book), Rare Earth, Rare-earth, Rare earth: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. rare earth: Rhymezone
  13. Rare Earth, rare earth: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  14. rare earth: FreeDictionary.org
  15. rare earth: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. rare earth: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. rare earth: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. rare earth: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. rare earth: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (rare earth)

noun:  (chemistry) Any of the naturally occurring oxides of the lanthanide metals; they are widely distributed in relatively small concentrations and are used in glassmaking, ceramic glazes etc.
noun:  A rare earth element.

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