copolymer

English

Etymology

From co- +‎ polymer.

Noun

copolymer (plural copolymers)

1. (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

• block copolymer
• copolymerization
• pseudocopolymer

 

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)