A ceramic is an inorganic, nonmetallic solid material comprising metal, nonmetal or metalloid atoms primarily held in ionic and covalent bonds.
Ceramic may also refer to:
Objects Ceramic art, art made from ceramic materials Ceramic building material, an umbrella term used in archaeology to cover all building materials made from baked clay Ceramic capacitor, an electronic component with ceramic dielectric Ceramic heater, a space heater with a ceramic heating element Ceramic knife, a knife with a ceramic blade Ceramic pottery
Other uses Ceramic, North Carolina, a ghost town in the US SS Ceramic, a British ocean liner, built 1912–1913, sunk 1942 by German torpedo attack
See also Ceramic foam, a tough foam made from ceramics Ceramic resonator, an electronic component with a piezoelectric ceramic material Ceramic membrane, used in liquid filtration Ceramic houses, buildings made of an earth mixture high in clay and fired to become ceramic, a technique developed in Iran in the 1970s Ceramic engineering, the science and technology of creating ceramic objects Ceramic petrography, a laboratory-based scientific archaeological technique in which ceramics and other inorganic materials are examined using polarized light microscopy Ceramic chemistry, the chemistry of ceramics and glazes