Usually means: Organic compound, simplest aldehyde, preservative.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. formaldehyde: Merriam-Webster
  2. formaldehyde: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. formaldehyde: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. formaldehyde: Collins English Dictionary
  5. formaldehyde: Vocabulary.com
  6. Formaldehyde, formaldehyde: Wordnik
  7. formaldehyde: Wiktionary
  8. formaldehyde: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. formaldehyde: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. formaldehyde: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. formaldehyde: Dictionary.com
  12. formaldehyde: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Formaldehyde (album), Formaldehyde (disambiguation), Formaldehyde (song), Formaldehyde: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Formaldehyde: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. formaldehyde: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. formaldehyde: Rhymezone
  17. Formaldehyde: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. formaldehyde: FreeDictionary.org
  19. formaldehyde: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. formaldehyde: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. formaldehyde: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. formaldehyde: Financial dictionary
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Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. formaldehyde: Encyclopedia

Medicine (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. formaldehyde: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Formaldehyde: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. formaldehyde: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  7. formaldehyde: Medical dictionary
  8. Formaldehyde: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Formaldehyde: Eric Weisstein's World of Chemistry
  2. Formaldehyde: Extragalactic Astronomy
  3. Atmospheric Chemistry and Air Quality (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Formaldehyde: Urban Dictionary

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  3. Explosives (No longer online)
  4. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Energy Terms (No longer online)
  6. Chemical Fact Sheet (No longer online)

(Note: See formaldehydes as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (organic chemistry) The simplest aldehyde, HCHO, a colourless gas that has many industrial applications; it dissolves in water to give formol (10%) and formalin.

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