dimethyl ether

See also: Dimethylether, dimethylether, and diméthyléther

English

Noun

dimethyl ether (uncountable)

2. (organic chemistry) The simplest ether; that derived from methanol (CH₃OCH₃)

   Alternative forms: DME (initialism), dimethylether

Hypernyms

• carbon compound
• ether
• hydrogen compound
• molecule
• organic compound
• oxygen compound
• R-O-R

Coordinate terms

• diethyl ether
• methanol

Derived terms

• DME

Related terms

• di-
• dimethyl
• ether
• methan-
• methane
• methyl

Translations

dimethyl ether

German: Dimethylether Persian: دی‌متیل اتر (di-metil eter) Romanian: dimetil eter, eter dimetilic Turkish: dimetil eter