polypropylene

See also: Polypropylene and polypropylène

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Etymology

From poly- +‎ propylene.

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Noun

polypropylene (countable and uncountable, plural polypropylenes)

1. A thermoplastic resin made by the polymerization of propylene, and used for films, fibres, or moulding materials.

   Synonyms: PP (initialism), polypropene

   Hypernym: polyolefin

   Coordinate terms: polyethylene, polyethene

   Near-synonym: ♷

Derived terms

• polypropylene glycol

Translations

resin

Catalan: polipropilè m Chinese: Mandarin: 聚丙烯 (zh) (jùbǐngxī) Czech: polypropylen m Estonian: polüpropeen Finnish: polypropeeni (fi) French: polypropylène (fr) m German: Polypropylen (de) n Greek: πολυπροπυλένιο (el) n (polypropylénio) Italian: polipropilene (it) m Japanese: ポリプロピレン (ja) (poripuropiren) Korean: 폴리프로필렌 (pollipeuropillen) Polish: polipropylen (pl) m Russian: полипропиле́н (ru) m (polipropilén) Swedish: polypropylen Vietnamese: polipropilen