Definition of porcelain Porcelain

/pɔˈɹsʌlʌn/ - [porsulun] - por•ce•lain

We found 10 definitions of porcelain from 7 different sources.

What does porcelain mean?

Noun Plural: porcelains
porcelain - ceramic ware made of a more or less translucent ceramic
		ceramic ware utensils made from ceramic material
		china high quality porcelain originally made only in China

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porcelain (Noun)
A hard, white, translucent ceramic that is made by firing kaolin and other materials; china.
porcelain (Noun)
Anything manufactured from this material..

porcelain (n.)
Purslain.
porcelain (n.)
A fine translucent or semitransculent kind of earthenware, made first in China and Japan, but now also in Europe and America; -- called also China, or China ware.

porcelain
A white translucent dense ceramic material produced by fusing under high temperature a mixture of feldspar, kaolin, quartz, whiting and other substances.
porcelain
Made of porcelain.

porcelain
pors′lān, n. a fine earthenware, white, thin, semi-transparent, first made in China: china-ware.—adj. of the nature of porcelain.—adjs. Por′celānous, Porcellā′neous, Por′cellānous.—n. Por′cellanite, a very hard, impure, jaspideous rock.—Cast, or Fusible, porcelain, a milky glass made of silica and cryolite with oxide of zinc; Egg-shell porcelain, an extremely thin and translucent porcelain; False porcelain, a name given to the artificial or soft-paste porcelain; Frit porcelain, a name given to artificial soft-paste English porcelain, from its vitreous nature; Tender porcelain, a ware imitating hard-paste or natural porcelain. [O. Fr. porcelaine—It. porcellana, the Venus' shell—L. porcella, a young sow—porcus, a pig.]

Porcelain is a ceramic material made by heating selected and refined materials to high temperatures. This often includs clay in the form of kaolinite.

Raw materials for porcelain, when mixed with water, form a plastic paste that can be worked to a required shape before firing in a kiln at temperatures between about 1200 and 1400 degrees Celsius.