polymeric

POS

Adjective

HYPHEN

pol=y=mer=ic

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective polymeric has 1 sense

polymeric(a = adj.pert) - of or relating to or consisting of a polymer; "a polymeric compound"

Derived form noun

polymer₁

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CIDE DICTIONARY

polymeric, a. [Poly- + Gr. part.].

Having the same percentage composition (that is, having the same elements united in the same proportion by weight), but different molecular weights; -- often used with with; thus, cyanic acid (CNOH), fulminic acid (C2N2O2H2), and cyanuric acid (C3N3O3H3), are polymeric with each other. [1913 Webster]

" The figures expressing the number of atoms of each element in a number of polymeric substances are respectively multiples and factors of each other, or have some simple common divisor. The relation may be merely a numerical one, as in the example given above, or a chemical one, as in the case of aldehyde, paraldehyde, and metaldehyde." [1913 Webster]