Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A polymer containing repeated amide groups, as in various kinds of nylon.
Wiktionary
- n. chemistry Any of a range of polymers containing amide (or peptide) repeat units; examples include proteins and nylon
WordNet 3.0
- n. a polymer containing repeated amide groups
Examples
“Nylon is sometimes called polyamide or polyamid, especially on yarn labels from foreign countries.”
“Editor's Note: Nylon, which was discovered in the 1930s by DuPont, is commonly called polyamide in Europe”
“(It) is rarely made up of 100 percent cotton like French handmade lace, and is supplemented with chemicals such as polyamide, which produces cheaper thread," she said.”
The Huffington Post: Venus Williams Tennis Dress Cheers Lace Industry
“The Hammer and Song, Peter Macapia fabricated with polyamide through fusion”
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“When refracted through the translucency of the polyamide petals, the LEDs produce lovely patterns and variances of light.”
“The stools are made from recyclable plastic and wrapped with polyamide-jersey base cloth which is both waterproof and UV resistant.”
“Mr. Collins took issue with an inventive but poorly executed Comme des Garçons for H&M asymmetrical skirt ($79) made of boiled wool, cotton and polyamide.”
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“Alessi's rounded, stainless-steel penguin teapot (Marcuse, 617-932-9444. $190) also has legs, little green polyamide ones, on which it seems to perch expectantly.”
“The Stitch Witchery website offers this: “Stitch Witchery is a polyamide fusible web that permanently bonds two layers of fabric together.””
“They are actually printing out the final piece that gets delivered to the customer using a great big EOSINT polyamide laser sintering machine a.k.a. the magic 3-d printer.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘polyamide’.
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SCIE - EU nomenclature
All the scientific words found in the official EU nomenclature. For the screening I used Vocabgrabber of the Visual Thesaurus.
abdominal, absorbent, accelerator, accumulator, acebutolol, acetamide, acetanilide, acetate, acetic acid, acetone, acetous, acetyl and 1171 more...
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SCIE - Be the first...
... to use these words in spoken English and reap esteem. In the SPOKEN corpus of the COCA (full corpus: 450 million words) none of these occur.
stochastic, disputant, state-led, almshouse, exceptionality, bibliographical, t-test, z-score, personal/social, neoplastic, stroma, ludic and 288 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
abaca, abdominal, abrasive, absorbent, absorber, accelerator, accessory, account book, accumulator, acebutolol, acetaldehyde, acetamide and 4515 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Super Geeky Word List
as a techie, I run across nerd words.
brane, polyamide, phb, PHB, BOFH, redditor, grammar nazi, phaser, trending, SPOILER ALERT, surface mount, FMEA and 78 more...
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Polymers
"Any of numerous natural and synthetic compounds of usually high molecular weight consisting of up to millions of repeated linked units, each a relatively light and simple molecule."
-...cellulose, diamond, feldspar, nucleic acids, proteins, quartz, rubber, starch, wool, polyethylene, polypropylene, laminarin and 58 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for polyamide.
alexz Polyamide is a high temperature plastic. It's used in flexible printed circuits such as the gold coloured ribbon in your printer. It's used in flexible circuits because it can handle the high temperatures of the soldering process and is thin and flexible.
It's used in the powder coating industry to protect areas from being powdercoated such as machined threads.
It's used on a lot of spacecraft - all that gold coloured space tape wrapping up bundles of wires on the mars rovers, satellites, and on the space station is there so that wires can resist high temperatures or resist catching on fire.
Dec 31, 2012