Usually means: Large molecules composed of monomers.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. polymer: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. polymer: Merriam-Webster
  3. polymer: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. polymer: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. polymer: Collins English Dictionary
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  7. Polymer, polymer: Wordnik
  8. polymer: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. polymer: Wiktionary
  10. polymer: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. polymer: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. polymer: Infoplease Dictionary
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  14. polymer: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. polymer: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Polymer (Plaid album), Polymer (Tonedeff), Polymer (album), Polymer (disambiguation), Polymer (library), Polymer: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Polymer: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. polymer: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. polymer: Rhymezone
  20. Polymer (nt), polymer: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. polymer: FreeDictionary.org
  22. polymer: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. polymer: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. polymer: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. polymer: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
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  3. POLYMER: Glossary of Art Terms

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Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. polymer: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. polymer: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. polymer: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  4. polymer: Medical dictionary
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Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Polymer: Biology dictionary
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  4. polymer: Natural History Terms
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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (organic chemistry) 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.
noun:  A material consisting of such polymer molecules.

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