Definition of Polymers

1. Noun. (plural of polymer) ¹

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Definition of Polymers

1. polymer [n] - See also: polymer

Medical Definition of Polymers

1. Compounds formed by the joining of smaller, usually repeating, units linked by covalent bonds. These compounds often form large macromolecules (e.g., polypeptides, proteins, plastics). (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Polymers

polymerizability
polymerizable
polymerizate
polymerizates
polymerization
polymerizations
polymerize
polymerized
polymerizer
polymerizers
polymerizes
polymerizing
polymerlike
polymerone
polymerous
polymers (current term)
polymersome
polymersomes
polymery
polymetallic
polymethacrylate
polymethacrylates
polymethacrylic
polymethacrylic acid
polymethacrylic acids
polymethacrylicer
polymethacrylicest
polymethine

Literary usage of Polymers

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"Some polymers were over ten times as.active as the equivalent amount of histidine; these and other polymers could be largely or partially inactivated by ..."

2. Sensor Systems for Biological Agent Attacks: Protecting Buildings and by Bmed, National Research Council (U.S.), ebrary, Inc (2005)
"Imprinted polymers Polymerization of certain monomers in the presence of target ... While imprinted polymers developed to date are known to suffer from ..."

3. A New Basis for Chemistry: A Chemical Philosophy by Thomas Sterry Hunt (1891)
"All known liquid and solid species, whether elementary or not, are polymers of some simpler species, which, in very many cases, is capable of assuming the ..."

4. Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Proximate by Alfred Henry Allen, Henry Leffmann (1896)
"Dilute nitric acid decomposes it with evolution of carbon dioxide and formation of silver and ammonium nitrates (page 484). polymers of Cyanic Acid. ..."

5. Commercial Organic Analysis: A Treatise on the Properties, Proximate by Alfred Henry Allen (1896)
"Dilute nitric acid decomposes it with evolution of carbon dioxide and formation of silver and ammonium nitrates (page 484). polymers of Cyanic Acid. ..."

6. The Elementary Principles of Chemistry by Abram Van Eps Young (1900)
"Of these there are two varieties—the polymers and the metamers. The polymers are substances which have the same percentage composition, but differ in ..."

7. The Elementary Principles of Chemistry by Abram Van Eps Young (1900)
"0f these there are two varieties—the polymers and the metamers. The polymers are substances which have the same percentage composition, but differ in ..."

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