Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

polycatenane

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: poly-ca-te-nane
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any polymer containing a number of monomers linked in the fashion of a catenane.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁-der. Proto-Indo-European *polh₁ús Ancient Greek πολῠ́ς (polŭ́s)lbor. English poly- English catenane English polycatenane From poly- + catenane.

Inflected Forms

polycatenanes (plural)

Questions

What does polycatenane mean?: Any polymer containing a number of monomers linked in the fashion of a catenane.
Where does polycatenane come from?: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁-der. Proto-Indo-European *polh₁ús Ancient Greek πολῠ́ς (polŭ́s)lbor. English poly- English catenane English polycatenane From poly- + catenane.

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