Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- Containing a nitrogen group, especially one attached at both ends in a covalent bond to other groups: azole.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Wiktionary
- containing nitrogen
GNU Webster's 1913
- Applied loosely to compounds having nitrogen variously combined, as in cyanides, nitrates, etc.
- Now especially applied to compounds containing a two atom nitrogen group uniting two hydrocarbon radicals, as in
azo benzene,azo benzoic, etc. These compounds furnish many artificial dyes. See diazo-.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. relating to or containing the azo radical
Etymologies
- From French azote, nitrogen : Greek a-, not; see a-1 + Greek zōē, life (from the fact that nitrogen does not support respiration); see gwei- in Indo-European roots.
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