Any one of two or more substances related to each other by polymerism; specifically, a substance produced from another substance by chemical polymerization.
Word of the Day: Catachrestical
1. The state, quality, or relation of two or more polymeric substances.
2. The act or process of forming polymers.
The act or process of changing to a polymeric form; the condition resulting from such change.
To change into another substance having the same atomic proportions, but a higher molecular weight; to undergo polymerization; thus, aldehyde polymerizes in forming paraldehyde.
To cause polymerization of; to produce polymers from; to increase the molecular weight of, without changing the atomic proportions; thus, certain acids polymerize aldehyde.
1. Having many parts or members in each set.
2. Polymeric.
Resin Roget’s Thesaurus §356a
N. resin, rosin, gum, lac, sealing wax, amber, # ambergris, bitumen, pitch, tar, asphalt, asphaltum, camphor, varnish, copal, mastic, magilp, lacquer, japan, artificial resin, polymer, ion-exchange resin, cation-exchange resin, anion exchange resin, water softener, amberlite, dowex, diaion
V. varnish
Adj. resiny, resinous, bituminous, pitchy, tarry, asphaltic, asphaltite, 1, vitality 1. vitality in general
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