Definition of Three-membered

1. Adjective. Of a chemical compound having a ring with three members.

Exact synonyms: 3-membered
Similar to: Membered

Lexicographical Neighbors of Three-membered

three-fourths
three-headed
three-hitter
three-horned
three-hundredth
three-lane
three-leafed
three-leaved
three-legged
three-legged race
three-line whip
three-lobed
three-martini lunch
three-martini lunches
three-membered (current term)
three-mile limit
three-milk cake
three-minute warning
three-nerved
three-on-the-tree
three-parted
three-party
three-peat
three-piece
three-piece suit
three-pile
three-ply
three-point landing

Literary usage of Three-membered

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

1. Victor Von Richter's Organic Chemistry ; Or, Chemistry of the Carbon Compounds by Victor von Richter (1900)
"three-membered HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS. As a rule, bodies of this class manifest " ring-strain " to a greater it' pree than the carbocyclic substances of the ..."

2. Victor Von Richter's Organic Chemistry; Or, Chemistry of the Carbon by Victor von Richter, Richard Anschütz, Georg Schroeter (1900)
"three-membered HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS. As a rule, bodies of this class ... 276),—contain a three-membered ring consisting of two C-atoms and one N-atom. ..."

3. The Education of Man by Friedrich Fröbel (1886)
"And as in all three-and-three membered solids, the axis of formation separated from each of the three equally important fundamental directions, ..."

4. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1879)
"Thus, the formation of three- membered rings with only one heteroatom is considered first, followed by a systematic discussion of systems containing two ..."

5. Victor Von Richter's Organic Chemistry; Or, Chemistry of the Carbon by Victor von Richter, Richard Anschütz, Georg Schroeter (1900)
"three-membered HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS. As a rule, bodies of this class ... 276), — contain three-membered ring consisting of two C-atoms and one N-atom. ..."

6. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1868)
"The Amendment that in three-membered constituencies every elector should have two votes ... He was not himself favourable to three-membered constituencies; ..."

7. The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences: Founded Upon Their History by William Whewell (1847)
"The rhombohedral system has triangular symmetry, or is three-membered: the pyramidal has square symmetry, or is four-membered ..."

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