polyamide

See also: Polyamide

English

Etymology

From poly- +‎ amide.

Noun

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polyamide

Wikipedia

polyamide (plural polyamides)

2. (organic chemistry) Any of a range of polymers containing amide (or peptide) repeat units; examples include proteins and nylon.
   • 2022 April 3, Sabrina Imbler, “In the Ocean, It’s Snowing Microplastics”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, archived from the original on 5 April 2022:

     For eons, the debris has contained the same things — flecks from plant and animal carcasses, feces, mucus, dust, microbes, viruses — and transported the ocean’s carbon to be stored on the seafloor. Increasingly, however, marine snowfall is being infiltrated by microplastics: fibers and fragments of polyamide, polyethylene and polyethylene terephthalate. And this fauxfall appears to be altering our planet’s ancient cooling process.

Derived terms

• aramid
• homopolyamide
• polyamidation
• polyamide-imide

Translations

polymer

Chinese: Mandarin: 聚酰胺 (zh) Finnish: polyamidi (fi) French: polyamide (fr) f German: Polyamid (de) n Italian: poliammide (it) f Japanese: ポリアミド (ja) Korean: 폴리아미드 (polliamideu) Polish: poliamid m Portuguese: poliamida f Romanian: poliamidă (ro) f Spanish: poliamida f Turkish: poliamit

Anagrams

• polymedia

French

Pronunciation

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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Noun

polyamide f (plural polyamides)

1. polyamide

Further reading

• “polyamide”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.