polymer

Meaning of polymer

noun

A long or larger molecule consisting of a chain or network of many repeating units, formed by chemically bonding together many identical or similar small molecules called monomers. A polymer is formed by polymerization, the joining of many monomer molecules.
A material consisting of such polymer molecules.

Information about polymer

It is a name.
The plural form of polymer is: polymers.
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Hyphenation of polymer

poly-mer

It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
polymer is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

Translation of polymer

French: polymère
Spanish: polímero
Portuguese: polymero
Italian: polimero

Words that rhyme with polymer

Aymer, Braymer, misrhymer, rhymer, Clymer, biopolymer, bipolymer, copolymer, fluoropolymer, glycopolymer, halatopolymer, homopolymer, interpolymer, photopolymer, quaterpolymer, superpolymer, terpolymer, Symer, Wymer

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