Usually means: Colorless flammable gas, double-bonded carbon.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. ethylene: Merriam-Webster
  2. ethylene: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ethylene: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ethylene: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ethylene: Vocabulary.com
  6. Ethylene, ethylene: Wordnik
  7. ethylene: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. ethylene: Wiktionary
  9. ethylene: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. ethylene: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. ethylene: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. ethylene: Dictionary.com
  13. Ethylene (data page), Ethylene: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Ethylene: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. ethylene: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. ethylene: Rhymezone
  17. Ethylene: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. ethylene: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  19. ethylene: FreeDictionary.org
  20. ethylene: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. ethylene: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Ethylene: Energy Dictionary
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  1. Ethylene (plant hormone), ethylene: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. ethylene: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  4. Ethylene (plant hormone), ethylene: Medical dictionary

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  1. Ethylene: Eric Weisstein's World of Chemistry
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  3. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)

(Note: See ethylenes as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (ethylene)

noun:  (organic chemistry) The common name for the organic chemical compound ethene. The simplest alkene, a colorless gaseous (at room temperature and pressure) hydrocarbon with the chemical formula C₂H₄.
noun:  (organic chemistry) The divalent radical derived from ethane.

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