polypropylene

See also: Polypropylene and polypropylène

English

Etymology

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Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁-

Proto-Indo-European *polh₁ús

Ancient Greek πολῠ́ς (polŭ́s)lbor.

English poly-

English propylene

English polypropylene

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