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• Ceramics of Jalisco — High fire ceramic with traditional designs at the Museo Regional de la Ceramica, Tlaquepaque. Ceramics of Jalisco, Mexico has a history that extends far back in the pre Hispanic period, but modern production is the result of techniques introduced …   Wikipedia

• Ceramics of indigenous peoples of the Americas — Moche portrait vessel, Musée du quai Branly, ca. 100 700 CE, 16 x 29 x 22 cm …   Wikipedia

• Ceramics museum — A Sèvres dinner service on display at the Museo delle porcellane di Firenze …   Wikipedia

• ceramics —    The ceramics most people are familiar with is commercial and is therefore functional rather than aesthetic/sculptural. This industry is dominated by Staffordshire companies including Wedgwood. Although these are technologically innovative,… …   Encyclopedia of contemporary British culture

• advanced ceramics — ▪ ceramics Introduction       substances and processes used in the development and manufacture of ceramic materials that exhibit special properties.       As is pointed out in the article ceramic composition and properties, ceramics are… …   Universalium

• capacitor dielectric and piezoelectric ceramics — ▪ ceramics Introduction       advanced industrial materials that, by virtue of their poor electrical conductivity, are useful in the production of electrical storage or generating devices.       Capacitors (capacitor) are devices that store… …   Universalium

• industrial ceramics —       Ceramics are broadly defined as inorganic, nonmetallic materials that exhibit such useful properties as high strength and hardness, high melting temperatures, chemical inertness, and low thermal and electrical conductivity but that also… …   Universalium

• ceramics — ce|ram|ics [sıˈræmıks] n [Date: 1800 1900; : Greek; Origin: keramikos, from keramos (clay used for making) pots ] 1.) [U] the art of making pots, bowls, ↑tiles etc, by shaping pieces of clay and baking them until they are hard 2.) [plural] things …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• ceramics — noun 1 (U) the art of making pots, bowls, tiles etc, by shaping pieces of clay and baking them until they are hard 2 (plural) things that are made this way: an exhibition of ceramics at the crafts museum ceramic adjective: ceramic tiles …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• ceramics — /seuh ram iks/, n. 1. (used with a sing. v.) the art or technology of making objects of clay and similar materials treated by firing. 2. (used with a pl. v.) articles of earthenware, porcelain, etc. [1855 60; see CERAMIC, ICS] * * * Traditionally …   Universalium

• Mexican ceramics — Woman selling pottery items at the Feria de Texcoco, Texcoco, Mexico State Ceramics and pottery in Mexico date back thousands of years before the Pre Columbian period, when ceramic arts and pottery crafts developed with the first advanced… …   Wikipedia