Usually means: Industrial solvent used in dry-cleaning.
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  1. tetrachloroethylene: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  2. tetrachloroethylene: Vocabulary.com
  3. tetrachloroethylene: Wordnik
  4. tetrachloroethylene: Wiktionary
  5. tetrachloroethylene: Infoplease Dictionary
  6. tetrachloroethylene: Dictionary.com
  7. Tetrachloroethylene (data page), Tetrachloroethylene: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. tetrachloroethylene: Rhymezone
  9. tetrachloroethylene: FreeDictionary.org
  10. tetrachloroethylene: Mnemonic Dictionary
  11. tetrachloroethylene: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. tetrachloroethylene: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. tetrachloroethylene: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  5. tetrachloroethylene: Medical dictionary

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  1. Glossary of chlorine and other chemical related terms (No longer online)

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  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Chemical Fact Sheet (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (tetrachloroethylene)

noun:  A liquid chlorocarbon with the formula C₂Cl₄, commonly used in dry cleaning and metal degreasing.

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