copolymer

English

Etymology

From co- +‎ polymer.

Noun

copolymer (plural copolymers)

(chemistry) A polymer derived from more than one species of monomer.
Synonym: heteropolymer

Antonym: homopolymer

Hyponyms: bipolymer, terpolymer, quaterpolymer; heterodimer, heterotrimer, heterotetramer, heteropentamer, heterohexamer, heteroheptamer, heterooctamer; block copolymer

Coordinate term: pseudocopolymer

Derived terms

Translations

polymer derived from more than one species of monomer

Chinese:
Mandarin: 共聚物 (zh)
Czech: kopolymer
Estonian: kopolümeer
Finnish: kopolymeeri
French: copolymère (fr)
German: Copolymer n
Hungarian: kopolimer (hu)
Indonesian: kopolimer (id)
Italian: copolimero (it) m
Japanese: 共重合
Polish: kopolimer (pl)
Portuguese: copolímero m
Romanian: copolimer (ro)
Slovak: kopolymér
Spanish: copolímer m
Swedish: sampolymer (sv)
Turkish: kopolimer (tr)
Ukrainian: кополімер (kopolimer)

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